Mesoamerican ballcourt
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A Mesoamerican ballcourt is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2,700 years to play the Mesoamerican ballgame, particularly the hip-ball version of the ballgame. More
Ceramic sculpture from a Western Mexican tomb showing players engaged in the Mesoamerican ballgame
Great Ballcourt at Chichen Itza
Mesoamerican ball court at Teotenango
Ballgame court at Monte Albán
El Tajín
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El Tajín is a pre-Columbian archeological site in Veracruz, Mexico and is one of the largest and most important cities of the Classic era of Mesoamerica. A part of the Classic Veracruz culture, El Taj
Mesoamerican ballcourt
…ballcourts are found within most Mesoamerican sites, they are not equally distributed across time or geography. For example, the Late Classic site of El Tajin, the largest city of the ballgame-obsessed Classic Veracruz culture, has at least 18 ballcourts while Cantona, a nearby contemporaneous site, sets the…
Ceremonial center in Papantla, Veracruz
Pyramid of the Niches before restoration (1913 photo). The present-day view of the pyramid can be seen here.
One of Carl Nebel's drawings of the Pyramid of the Niches
World Heritage Site plaque