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Researchers Finally Understand Why The Aztec Death Whistle Is So Scary
The noise may have also represented the Aztec wind god Ehecatl or the god of death ... They have a symbolic nature related to the dead and the underworld. There is still a lot to uncover about ...
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Mexico-Austria dispute over artifacts about more than ‘Moctezuma’s headdress’
A statue of the Aztec god of the dead Mictlantecuhtli stands among other pre-Hispanic artifacts that originated in Mexico at Vienna's Weltmuseum Wien. (Weltmuseum Wien via Courthouse News) Experts, ...
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Archaeologists Unearth 119 More Skulls At 14th-Century Aztec Temple In Mexico City
When the first Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1519, they claimed to have witnessed a ...