Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles, also known as ehecachichtlis, in 1999 while excavating the ...

Since ancient times, rituals using various musical instruments have been performed around the world, but the Aztec flute ... been a human sacrifice to the wind god Ehécatl, were found clutching ...

The chilling noise is described as the 'scariest sound in the world', and is somewhere between a spooky gust of whistling ...

Their prevalence in gravesites led researchers to suspect that these petrifying piccolos may have been symbols of Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind who “traveled to the underworld to obtain the ...

A terrifying ancient instrument known as the Aztec death whistle, which produces a sound described as the "scream of a thousand corpses", remains just as frightening to modern listeners as it was 500 ...

Ranging from a threatening hiss to a blood-curdling scream, the sound of the Aztec death whistle is as creepy as the ...

Human sacrifice with original skull whistle (enlarged in red box) as discovered 1987–89 at the Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl temple ... symbolize Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind. "[Ehecatl] traveled ...

Manhattan DA Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced the return of 30 looted artifacts to Mexico, valued around $500,000.

New research reveals that the sounds from the mysterious Aztec death whistle has an "aversive" and "scary" impact on the ...

The first whistle was recovered in the ancient Tlatelolco temple, which was devoted to the Aztec god of wind, Ehecatl, an important deity for the Aztecs. It is possible that the wind-like nature of ...