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. When you purchase through links ...

Spoiler alert: this touring show about the short-lived Aztec empire includes evidence of religious practices involving human sacrifice ... of life lived on a knife edge.

Archaeologists have unearthed gruesome evidence of brutal Aztec rituals by uncovering 50 ... Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City). Found at one sacrificial stone below a ceremonial platform called ...

That's where the most important Aztec ceremonies took place between 1325 until the Spanish conquest in 1521. The 50 skulls were found at one sacrificial stone. Five were buried under the stone ...

Also, the common belief about Aztec sacrificial stones is that a person being sacrificed was killed by cutting open the chest and pulling out the heart. "We normally associate (it) with heart ...

The 13 stolen items include an Aztec sacrificial knife valued at more than $1,500 and a Mexican obsidian knife valued at more than $500. Other stolen items were a Native American ceremonial bowl ...

Aztec communities may therefore have used the scary sounds in specific ritual contexts, such as ceremonies involving death.