In Mexico City's bustling historic center, the Hospital de Jesus covers most of a city block. Its faded unassuming yellow facade, characteristic of the middle of the last century, obscures the medical ...

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 ...

As one of the largest paintings in a succession of 27 works all titled “L’empire des lumières” (“The Empire of Light”), the 1954 canvas is well known among 20th century art experts for ...

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 ...

During ritual ceremonies, the ancient Aztec civilization used a “death ... dominated central Mexico from 1300 to 1521. Researchers built 3D models of the original instruments to unravel the ...

Each year, families across the United States gather around for Thanksgiving at a colorfully decorated table of aromatic dishes. The holiday originates from the early English colonists feasting with ...

Summerlike warmth has been eating away at fall in the United States this year as the season continues to wither in a warming world. If you feel cheated out of crisp autumn weather this year ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Aztec culture remains uniquely fascinating in part due to its various religious practices that tend toward the macabre, including human sacrifice and temples decorated with human skulls. But one of ...