Deep within Mexico’s archaeological treasures lies a haunting instrument whose true psychological impact is only now being ...

The mysterious Aztec "death whistles" have fascinated researchers with their eerie, terrifying effect they have on the ...

Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles, also known as ehecachichtlis, in 1999 while excavating the ...

It sounds like a scream from the depths of the underworld. It’s a haunting, ear-piercing shriek that stirs something primal ...

Ruins of Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City. Clockwise from top left ... remarkably well-preserved collection of 2,550 wooden artifacts unearthed by a team of archaeologists led by ...

This mask, which is on display at the British Museum in London, is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish ...

A Mexican delegation is coming to retrieve 84 Mesoamerican axes currently in transit at UdeM, underscoring the need to raise public awareness of the looting of archaeological artifacts. With its ...

What happens when the rain stops? For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in the mid-15th century, a two-year drought drove them to seek help from the supernatural — and to sacrifice ...

Cesar Pita’s ceramic sculptures feel like Mesoamerican artifacts. And when you get close, you discover that his child ...

3D paintings featuring a giant feathered serpent, a bronzed Aztec warrior and a colorful painting of a Mexican hairless dog surround the pre-Columbian artifacts in the gallery — drawing from ...

Located within the sprawling Chapultepec Forest, the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology) showcases artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian era, dating from about 100 B ...