One of the most interesting but terrifying religious practices of Aztec culture was the Aztec death whistle. The skull-shaped ceramic instrument not only looks creepy-it also produces the most ...

Aztec temples form the base of the Square of Three ... a grisly procedure that nevertheless “saved the mother from death.” The Aztec believed babies who died during labor traveled to a place ...

A terrifying ancient instrument known as the Aztec death whistle, which produces a ... including the Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl temple in Mexico City. The skull design may represent Mictlantecuhtli ...