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.

“It was a continuous sacrifice ... the boiling bones. Knife cuts and even teeth marks on the bones show which ones had meat stripped off to be eaten, Martinez said. Aztec warriors whitened ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sacrificial wolf adorned with some of the finest Aztec gold ever found has been dug up more than five centuries after it was buried in the heart of downtown Mexico City. The quality and number ...

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

Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian period of Mesoamerica had a rich mythological codex that was also part of their ritual and sacrificial ceremonies,” researchers said.

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 ...