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

Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited ... believe that they were related to the afterlife. When archaeologists blew into ...

Imagine an object so terrifying that its mere sound could make your blood run cold — a sonic weapon designed to disrupt the ...

New research reveals that the sounds from the mysterious Aztec death whistle has an "aversive" and "scary" impact on the ...

History is filled with mysterious artifacts, and the Aztec death whistle is an intriguing example ... the gloomy realm of the afterlife. Of course, such startling audial experiences pique the ...

Aztec culture remains ... or guide souls to the afterlife. It is also believed that the noise they produced was meant to evoke the Aztec wind god Ehecatl, or perhaps the god of death Mictlantecuhtli.

The Aztec death whistle ... Scholars believe death whistles were used in: Rituals and Sacrifices: To evoke deities such as Ehecatl (the wind god) or Mictlantecuhtli (the death god). Funerary ...

The Aztec death whistle, a small artifact shaped ... to guide spirits or emulate the chaotic conditions of the afterlife. “The whistles have a very unique construction, and we don’t know ...