1,000-year-old Mayan ball game scoreboard unearthed in Mexico

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,000-year-old Mayan scoreboard at the Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. The circular stone piece, believed to be a scoreboard for a soccer-like ball game, displays hieroglyphic writing and dates back to between 800 AD and 900 AD. The ball game was a traditional practice of Mesoamerican peoples and is believed to have had ritual undertones. The Chichen Itza complex is one of the main archaeological centers of the Mayan civilization in the Yucatan Peninsula.