Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles, also known as ehecachichtlis, in 1999 while excavating the ...

What it tells us about the past: This mask, which is on display at the British Museum in London ... in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire ...

These ceremonies included visual and sonic iconographic elements of mythological deities of the Aztec underworld ... death whistles from the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. The models revealed ...

The body of these whistles is decorated with a skull shape that could represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the underworld. Mictlantecuhtli ruled Mictlan ... used 3D digital reconstructions of ...

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. Ritual Aztec whistles produced ...