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 ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for ... grisly procedure that nevertheless “saved the mother from death.” The Aztec believed babies who died during labor traveled to a place ...

"The Aztec didn't impose their religion. They just wanted the products ... The emperor had responded by putting the ruler to death. At Ahuitzotl's funeral, 200 of his slaves were selected ...

“Aztec communities might have capitalised on the scary and scream-like nature of skull whistles,” they say, adding that ritual use of the whistles during human sacrifice was more likely than ...

Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this ...