Spoiler alert: this touring show about the short-lived Aztec empire includes evidence of religious practices involving human sacrifice ... of life lived on a knife edge.

“Gladiator sacrifice” is the name given to the form ... blood drops — and a sacrificial Aztec knife. How striking, I thought. Here was a potent work of iconographic propaganda using the ...

“It was a continuous sacrifice over ... Martinez said. Knife cuts and even teeth marks on the bones show which ones had meat stripped off to be eaten, he said. In Aztec times, the site was ...

Ten minutes into the British Museum's Moctezuma exhibition, devoted to the last Aztec ... out human sacrifices and, to confirm this conclusion, 'there are no traces of blood on the knife'.

The temple was dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war and the sun, and archaeologists have found abundant evidence of human ritual sacrifice there, suggesting this practice was key to ...

Ritual Aztec whistles produced a brain-scrambling "scream," according to a new study. The objects were used during human ...

The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the deity, who was also the god of the Sun. The boy was wearing a wooden disk that symbolizes Huitzilopochtli and a necklace constructed from jade beads.

For nearly five centuries, Huey Tzompantli, a tower of skulls from the victims of Aztec ritual sacrifice, has remained little more than an intriguing rumor. But a dig by archeologists in Mexico ...

Tezkatlipoka is the name of an Aztec god that was honored with human sacrifice. According to the World History Encyclopedia, an impersonator of Tezkatlipoka would be sacrificed with his heart ...

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice victims for their journey to the underworld. When you purchase through links ...