A team of scientists from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has created 3D reconstructions of several Aztec skull ...

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

But in the forests of central Mexico, a single note from an Aztec whistle didn’t always indicate celebration — it meant death. “Death whistles,” or Aztec skull whistles, were short ...

The whistles all made "a shrill, piercing, and scream-like sound quality when played with intensive air pressure," the team wrote in the study. The researchers discovered that the death whistle ...

A team of scientists from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has created 3D reconstructions of several Aztec skull whistles from the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, Germany. In research ...