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 ...

The chilling noise is described as the 'scariest sound in the world', and is somewhere between a spooky gust of whistling ...

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a ...

Those who hear it are shocked by its uncanny vocal quality, an otherworldly whirr that would no doubt have been chilling to ...

A turquoise-encrusted mask of Xiuhtecuhtli, Aztec fire god, symbolises renewal and is showcased at the British Museum.

Sound has the incredible ability to instill a certain kind of emotion into whoever hears it. The soulful call of a loon feels ...

In digging up ancient Aztec graves dating from the years 1250 to 1521 AD, archaeologists have found many examples of small whistles made of clay and formed into the shape of a skull. These ...

The institutions of their government, and the increasing threats – be they climatic, military, economic or political – gave ...

A terrifying ancient instrument known as the Aztec death whistle, which produces a sound described as the "scream of a thousand corpses", remains just as frightening to modern listeners as it was 500 ...