Ancient human skull masks left as offerings at an Aztec temple may have been crafted from the bones of defeated warriors and slain members of the nobility. Found alongside 30 decapitated skulls at the ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a massive ceremonial skull rack from the heyday of the Aztec empire in the heart of Mexico City, a find that could shed new light on how its ...

A tower of hundreds of human skulls has been unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City. Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical ...

More than 650 skulls once used to terrify the Aztec's enemies have been discovered in Mexico City. The skulls formed part of the skull rack known as the Huey Tzompantli, which sat next one of their ...

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice victims for their journey to the underworld. When you purchase through links on ...

Aztec “skull whistles” found in ancient gravesites were designed to produce shrieking sounds and instil “otherworldly” fear even in modern people, scientists say. Archaeologists have uncovered several ...

A COLLECTION of skulls found buried beneath the streets of modern Mexico are revealing the grisly details of human sacrifice in a lost Aztec city. The area was once the epicentre of the Aztec city of ...

Archaeologists discovered human skulls stacked in a tower buried in Mexico City. Aztecs used such towers, called tzompantli, to display skulls of people who were ritually sacrificed. Part of this ...