In cultures around the world, instruments have brought music and joy to rituals, ceremonies and everyday life. But in the ...

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

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice ...

A turquoise-encrusted mask of Xiuhtecuhtli, Aztec fire god, symbolises renewal and is showcased at the British Museum.

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a ...

When archaeologists blew into these creepy kazoos, they emitted an unearthly, banshee-like shriek similar to a haunted ...

Sound has the incredible ability to instill a certain kind of emotion into whoever hears it. The soulful call of a loon feels ...

Hearing the whistle's sound activated the low-order auditory cortical regions of the volunteer's brains – regions which tune ...

Those who hear it are shocked by its uncanny vocal quality, an otherworldly whirr that would no doubt have been chilling to ...

The Aztec death whistle's scream-like sound evokes fear and symbolizes mythological deities, linking modern and ancient ...

During ritual ceremonies, the ancient Aztec civilization used a “death whistle” — a haunting instrument shaped like a human ...

The Aztec Death Whistle. If hell has a sound, I bet it sounds a lot like the Aztec Death Whistle. The Aztec Death Whistle ...