Whistles shaped like skulls were used to create the sound of screams by the Aztecs.

Kenna and Stephanie learn to play an Aztec "death whistle" before battling giant "Red Monsters" discovered by the James Webb ...

But in the forests of central Mexico, a single note from an Aztec whistle didn’t always indicate celebration — it meant death ...

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

Discover the Aztec Death Whistle: a haunting artifact with a scream-like sound, rich in history and psychological intrigue.

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a rare 1,600-year-old bronze pendant depicting the biblical King Solomon defeating ...

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

ANCIENT Aztec ‘death whistles’ have a strange ‘uncanny valley’-style effect on the human brain, new research has found. These ...

For instance, some experts believe the death whistles were intended to mimic the razor-sharp winds of Mictlan, the Aztec underworld to which sacrificial tributes were believed to descend.

What happens when the rain stops? For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in the mid-15th century, a two-year drought drove them to seek help from the supernatural — and to sacrifice ...

Music producer and audio engineer Stephen Kane lives in Huntsville, Alabama, and has a large collection of "unusual instruments," including an Aztec Death Whistle. First discovered during an ...

When a jet ski crash left Nurul Azlifah Mohd Ismail fighting for her life in 2000, her relationship with the sea was shattered. “For years, I couldn’t go near the water without feeling afraid ...