Archaeologists found 14 Mesoamerican rubber balls in 1988 in Mexico and are now racing to stop their deterioration, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Archaeologists are racing to stop the ...

I find one of the most interesting parts of this is that Mesoamericans invented the rubber ball, an essential technology of modern civilization. Interesting they did that, but they didn't invent the ...

The history of sports may need to be rewritten: A new discovery disputes the origin story of the iconic, brutal and mysterious Mesoamerican ball game, played by ancient South and Central American ...

Maya people cremated their rulers and used the ashes to help make rubber balls that were used in ballgames, an archaeologist has claimed. The researcher and his team believe they've found evidence of ...

Hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years before Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process that made commercial rubber viable, Mesoamerican peoples were carrying out a similar process ...

Archaeologists are racing to stop the deterioration of 14 ancient rubber balls— the oldest of their kind — that were part of the ritual “ball game” played in Mesoamerica. The balls, discovered in 1988 ...