The Aztec death whistle sounds were also played to human listeners while their brains were being recorded. Brain regions belonging to the affective neural system responded strongly to the sound ...

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is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure in the early 16th century. The mask was carved out of Spanish cedar ...

In their hands, they had their own worlds: the Inca Empire (Tahuantinsuyu) and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. The two rulers created a unique, unrepeatable experience, which is ...

Hernan (or Hernando) Cortes, Spanish Conquistador Vintage engraving of Hernan (or Hernando) Cortes a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec ... Cortés defeated ...

By the start of the 1500s the Aztec empire stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and into Guatemala and Nicaragua. The arrival in 1521 AD of Hernan Cortés with Spanish soldiers brought ...

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles ... Animal, human, and synthetic sounds fall somewhere in between. Finally, the whistle ...

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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 ...

But when something doesn't fall within a clear category ... found in graves that date back to between 1250 to 1521 CE. Some of them were associated with ritual burials. Given this, and their results, ...