Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

Aztec communities may therefore have used the scary sounds in specific ritual contexts, such as ceremonies involving death. "Skull whistles might have been used to scare the human sacrifice or the ...

This colonial-era ideology views nature as a pristine wilderness to be walled off from human activity even when those humans own the land. For decades, conservation efforts have operated under the ...

Pete Buttigieg Decides to Spend More Time with His Family In 1519, when Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico he encountered an Aztec civilization dedicated to the practice of human sacrifice on a ...