National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, an Aztec poet composed a searing account of the capture of the capital city. Written in the Nahuatl language, using the ...

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Friday 13th is widely considered to be the most unlucky day of the year, but many are still in the dark about the origins of ...

For decades at San Diego State, there has been a contentious debate about the cultural appropriateness of our school mascot, the Aztec Warrior. In recent years, there has been upheaval and change ...

The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian artifacts ...

NEW YORK, May 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Aztec Group ("Aztec" or the "Group"), a leading international fund and corporate services provider to the alternative investments industry, has announced the ...

The Aztec Rhapsody is a unique attempt by a modern Mexican to write an epic poem about the Spanish conquest of Mexico, in the style of ancient epic poems like The Iliad or the Song of Roland.

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes. A new paper published in the journal ...

The mysterious ancient Aztec “death whistles” have a strange effect on the listener. Photo of skull-shaped death whistle. Credit: Jennysnest Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 The eerie, terrifying effect ...