The blood-curdling scream of the Aztec Death Whistle is thought to have been a soundtrack to human sacrifices centuries ago, or may even have echoed through the landscape as the ancient empire ...

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 ...

The Aztec religion and ancient Mexican art. A key aspect of the religion is human sacrifice and so I have been inspired by the idea of flames. The shoes and earring replicate the currency of this ...

The wail of the Aztec Death Whistle was the last thing many human sacrifices ever heard before they met their untimely end. The chilling noise is described as the 'scariest sound in the world ...

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

like human sacrifice. Yet another hypothesis proposes that the whistles were intended as symbols of a deity. The skull shape, for instance, might allude to the Aztec god of the underworld ...

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 ...

With a love of human sacrifice, warfare, and towers made out of human skulls, the ancient Aztecs certainly knew how to have fun. Just to add to the excitement, the pre-Columbian empire-builders ...

It is believed to be part of a skull rack from the temple to the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. Known as the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack stood on the corner of the chapel of ...