Ritual Aztec whistles produced a brain-scrambling "scream," according to a new study. The objects were used during human sacrifices and may have prepared victims for their supposed descent to ...

Excavations conducted between 1980 and 1981 by INAH uncovered Offering 48 at Templo Mayor, the most important temple complex in the Tenochtitlan ... culminated in the sacrifice of children ...

Before the Spaniards conquered Mexico-Tenochtitlan in the 16th century ... reemerged as the sun and commanded fellow gods to replicate his sacrifice to bring movement to the world.