The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Experts say it was located in a courtyard inside a home of an Aztec family, who would have used it ...

The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Experts say it was located in a courtyard inside a home of an Aztec family, who would have used it ...

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. Ritual Aztec whistles produced ...

and were surprised to find the skulls of women and children and males raising questions about human sacrifice in the Aztec Empire, Reuters reported. The Aztecs dominated large parts of central ...

the god of the underworld of the Aztecs. The shrill sound produced by these whistles could have been used to prepare human sacrifices for their journey to the underworld, Mictlan. The researchers ...

During ritual ceremonies, the ancient Aztec civilization used a “death whistle” — a haunting instrument shaped like a human skull. Its eerie, high-pitched ...