A bundle of botanicals buried at an ancient Maya ball court in Mexico may have been placed there as part of a ritual, according to a new study.
Archaeologists made the discovery while conducting fieldwork in what was once the ancient Maya city of Yaxnohcah, on the Yucatán Peninsula. During excavations, they noticed a dark stain in the soil and collected samples of it, the team reported in the study, which was published Friday (April 26) in the journal PLOS One.
