Ritual Aztec whistles produced a brain-scrambling "scream," according to a new study. The objects were used during human sacrifices and may have prepared victims for their supposed descent to ...

Until now, the largest mass child sacrifice event for which we have physical evidence is the ritual murder and interment of 42 children at Templo Mayor in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán ...

This unique quality of the Aztec whistles aligns with the tradition in various ancient cultures of mimicking natural and human sounds in their musical instruments, which may have served to give a ...

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

But in some ancient cultures, ... "In other societies—for example, Maya and Aztec—elite sacrifice was especially powerful," Sedig said.

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

Psychoacoustic and Archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles. Communications Psychology , 2024; 2 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00157-7 Cite This Page : ...

The wail of the Aztec Death Whistle was the last thing many human sacrifices ever heard before they met their untimely end. The chilling noise is described as the 'scariest sound in the world ...

Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girls; ... we could not perform our psychological and neuroscientific experiments with humans from ancient Aztec cultures.