The haunting wail was often the final sound heard by victims of human sacrifice in ancient Aztec ceremonies. The Death Whistle, crafted from clay and shaped like a human skull, has been discovered ...

One of the most interesting but terrifying religious practices of Aztec culture was the Aztec death whistle. The skull-shaped ceramic instrument not only looks creepy-it also produces the most ...

Naming rituals presided over by the goddess would ... a grisly procedure that nevertheless “saved the mother from death.” The Aztec believed babies who died during labor traveled to a place ...

"The only images we have of an Aztec ruler are of Moctezuma II, and these were made based on descriptions from the Spaniards after his death," López ... his yen for lavish ceremonies, coupled ...