"These faces, these portraits, look at us from the past. Their gaze transports us to the royal court of the ancient and ...

Have you ever felt thunder shake the windows or watched lightning split the sky and wondered who—or what—might be behind such ...

A study looking into the sound created by an mesoamerican instrument known as the Aztec 'death whistle' revealed the effect it had on the brain.

A noise dubbed the ‘most terrifying sound in the world’ that was last thing people heard before death was caught on doorbell footage.

Aztec death whistle may have been used to prepare sacrifice victims for journey to the afterlife because of their ominous, scream-like sound ...

The Aztecs created the small 1.2 to 2-inch-long (3 to 5 centimeters) skull-shaped whistles out of clay, possibly to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec lord of the underworld.

The skull-shaped body of the Aztec death whistle may represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec Lord of the Underworld. Credit: Sascha Frühholz, UZH. The Aztec death whistle’s scream-like sound evokes fear ...

Spine-chilling screams of sacrifice rituals linked to Aztec ‘death whistle’ sound The Aztecs, masters of symbolism and ritual, may have intentionally used this sound to evoke fear and awe ...

These ancient Aztec whistles do not fit in the Western classification of wind instruments. Their strange, scream-like sound has perplexed researchers as to their actual use. The first skull whistle ...

The skull design may represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec Lord of the Underworld. "Given both the aversive/scary and associative/symbolic sound nature as well as currently known excavation locations ...