MEXICO CITY — It has become a kind of rallying cry: Teuchitlán, the township in the western state of Jalisco where searchers ...

Archeologists have made a disturbing discovery of an Aztec tower of human skulls containing sacrificed women and children's ...

Another skull, with aviator glasses and a hat festooned with flowers, contrasted death and suffering with ... Borgia in acrylic paint, an ancient Aztec calendar. The Aztec calendar had 20-day ...

The eerie, terrifying effect of the mysterious Aztec "death whistles" on listeners have fascinated researchers. Popularly known as death whistles, they are skull-shaped and produce a frightening ...

Some skull whistles – sometimes referred to as death whistles – have been found buried alongisde ... One theory is that the design references Mictlantecuhtli, Aztec god of the underworld. Ehecatl is ...

An Aztec skull whistle.Sascha Frühholz (sasfru ... But did the victims of those bloody ceremonies leave this world terrified by the whistle of death or, on the contrary, were they comforted by the ...

A team of scientists from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has created 3D reconstructions of several Aztec skull whistles from the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, Germany. In research ...

“Death whistles,” or Aztec skull whistles, were short, carved instruments made of two opposing chambers where air could clash and create a “screeching sound,” according to a Nov. 19 news ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The Aztec death whistle is a mesoamerican instrument designed to imitate a human scream, and was often used during battle or at ...