In Aztec cosmology, López Luján knew ... "The sacred mountain is as important as the cross in Christianity," says Carrasco. For the Mexica, as for most Mesoamerican cultures, "there was this ...

National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, an Aztec poet composed a searing account of the capture of the capital city. Written in the Nahuatl language, using the ...

Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited with emitting the scariest sound on earth — still terrifies people today due to a ...

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes. A new paper published in the journal ...

Seen on influencers, pop stars and White House staff, cross necklaces are popping up everywhere. By Misty White Sidell When Arianna Salerno first moved to Washington, D.C., in 2022 to attend ...