Since then, a number of skull whistles have been recovered from Aztec sites. Most were found in the burials of sacrifice victims. When the whistles are blown, they emit an eerie, high-pitched ...

The Aztec bling became part of the ornately ritualized spirituality of Tenochtitlan. The Templo Mayor was not simply a burial pyramid like those erected by the ancient Egyptians but rather the ...

For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in ... In an upper layer of bodies, the officiants of the burial sprinkled blue pigment and then placed gourds, ocean materials, small birds ...