Art World A 500-Year-Old Aztec Tower of Human Skulls Is Even More Terrifyingly Humongous Than Previously Thought, Archaeologists Find. Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Huei Tzompantli tower ...

‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire,’ Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, (310) 440-7300, through July 5. Admission: Free, tickets required. Parking: $15.

Both The Aztec Empire at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 A.D. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—two big shows that opened last week—present an ...

In addition, they created a comprehensive sound library of over 2,500 recordings, including natural, human, and synthetic sounds, to compare with the skull whistle outputs.

One day, the U.S. Postal Service delivered a football helmet-sized Aztec crystal skull to the Smithsonian Institution from an anonymous donor. The note claimed it formerly belonged to a Mexican ...

This year’s most intriguing discoveries include an Aztec skull tower, fossilized footprints and Nazi shipwrecks Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Fascinating finds revealed ...

The shipment contained a skull sculpture and 12 adzes, which are ancient tools used for chopping, officials said. The collection is from the Post-classic to the Aztec ea, around 1100 through 1532 AD.

They may have gained fame in the Steven Spielberg adventure film "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," but those quartz-crystal skulls that once ranked as a great enigma of ...

A CRYSTAL skull revered by New Age followers for its perceived ancient mystical powers is likely to be a fake, an academic said yesterday.

The shipment contained a skull sculpture and 12 adzes, which are ancient tools used for chopping, officials said. The collection is from the Post-classic to the Aztec ea, around 1100 through 1532 AD.

The shipment contained a skull sculpture and 12 adzes, which are ancient tools used for chopping, officials said. The collection is from the Post-classic to the Aztec ea, around 1100 through 1532 AD.