Mystery surrounds an ancient “scythe” or “blade” discovered at a ceremonial offering site between two human skulls. The ...

Ancient Olmec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations featured jaguars prominently ... combination of anatomical features—powerful jaw muscles, robust skull structure, and precisely positioned teeth—to ...

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 ...

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice victims for their journey to the underworld. When you purchase through links ...

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes. A new paper published in the journal ...

Aztec “skull whistles” found in ancient gravesites were designed to produce shrieking sounds and instil “otherworldly” fear even in modern people, scientists say. Archaeologists have uncovered several ...

Psychoacoustic and Archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles. Communications Psychology , 2024; 2 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00157-7 Cite This Page : ...

The skull-shaped body of the Aztec death whistle may represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec Lord of the Underworld. Credit: Sascha Frühholz / UZH The so-called Aztec “death whistle” is an instrument ...

Recent research of the sounds of ancient Aztec skull-shaped whistles revealed their profound psychoacoustic effects on modern listeners. For the first time, scientists have examined the impact of ...

all young adults whose skulls were perforated postmortem. Analysis of the isotopic content of their teeth indicates that three of them had spent their childhoods far from the Aztec capital ...