Aztec and Mayan—two names often linked together in history, but are they really the same? In this video, we explore the ...

Many of today's words are derived from the ancient Aztec language Mexican authorities will teach an ancient Aztec language as a required part of the curriculum in the capital, Mexico City. The ...

The largest compositional study of obsidian artifacts found in the ancient Aztec capital of ... who spoke a different language to the Aztecs. "It is well known that the Mexica had quarries and ...

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 ...

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.

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Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited with emitting the scariest sound on earth — still terrifies people today due to a ...

T he Aztec Empire is among the most famous Mesoamerican societies that existed before the arrival of Europeans. Formed by ...

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 ...

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands 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 ...