It reminds us that fear itself can be an art form — meticulously crafted, deliberately deployed. This study examined the psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic effects of Aztec skull whistles.

Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec tower of human skulls under the centre of Mexico City. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH ...

For the next 500 years, the skulls lay undisturbed underneath what was once the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, but is now Mexico City. Until, that is, a group of archaeologists began the painstaking ...