In 1987, UNESCO declared the Xochimilco wetland area in southern Mexico City a World Heritage Site, recognizing in particular its chinampas, an ancient ... name in the Nahuatl language: atl ...

Codices written in the Indigenous Nahuatl language and Spanish continued to ... and it has at least 4 people buried inside it Secret of ancient Maya blue pigment revealed from cracks and clues ...

A striking 600-year-old Aztec sculpture depicting a golden eagle has been uncovered in an ancient temple in Mexico ... in the Nahuatl language spoken by Indigenous people in central Mexico ...

The celebration’s historical roots extend back thousands of years to ancient Aztec Indigenous traditions ... Here, elders prefer to speak in their own language — Náhuatl.

The Aztecs may have deliberately used this effect in sacrificial rituals. Many ancient cultures used musical instruments in ritual ceremonies. Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian ...

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 ...

“Unfortunately, we could not perform our psychological and neuroscientific experiments with humans from ancient Aztec cultures. But the basic mechanisms of affective response to scary sounds are ...