PAUL DEVEREUX reports on human rubber balls, an undersea oddity and new dolmen discoveries
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The ancient Mayan city of Toniná (Tzeltal for “house of stone”) is in the Chiapas highlands of southern Mexico. It consists of groups of temple-pyramids set on high terraces rising above a central plaza, two ball courts, and more than 100 carved monuments dating to between the 6th and 9th centuries AD. The ball courts were used for playing the 4,000-year-old early form of pelota, which was not merely a
