When it lived with the indigenous people when it first came out of the jungle it would have had a very religious significance It was something they had never seen before And they would have been hairl ...

The Aztecs didn't discover obsidian. It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the ...

Elina Gertsman calls the exhibit “small, but mighty.” Some items are so intricate and ornate they require viewing through a magnifying glass to capture detail. But make no mistake, the impact of ...

After centuries of conquest, many of Mexico's greatest treasures are outside the country. Here's where to find some famous ...

The show the Tucson bandmates saw that day in France, “El Xolo,” told the tale of the time-traveling Little Girl-Giant and her Mexican hairless god-dog ... “ch.” In Aztec culture, the ...

A figure of an axolotl sits on display at a museum in Xochimilco Ecological Park, in Mexico City (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) From ...

Along with the mysterious figurine ... Ancient Egyptians worshipped a god named Sobek, often depicted with an alligator head on a human body. Pre-Columbian and Meso-American cultures worshipped ...

In fact, the mask's raised turquoise may depict the wart-faced god Nanahuatzin, who, according to Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun. Kristina Killgrove ...

Temple for Aztec God Known as Flayed Lord Found To test the effect of the death whistle on listeners, the researchers had 70 subjects rate a sample of 2,500 sounds. From that data, the team found ...

The body of these whistles is decorated with a skull shape that could represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the underworld. Mictlantecuhtli ruled Mictlan, the place where the souls of the dead ...

Other scholars hypothesize that the sound of the whistles could represent Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind, who, according to legend, created humanity from the bones of the deceased. It is ...