Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

The first ones were discovered by researchers in 1999. Since then, a number of skull whistles have been recovered from Aztec sites. Most were found in the burials of sacrifice victims. When the ...

An ancient Aztec Death Whistle comes with one of the ... jungle-clad space between known Maya sites may once have been very heavily populated. "Previous research has shown that a large part ...

Called Fuego Nuevo, it’s a unique piece from Louis Moinet that features a dial made from meteorite with a laser-etched replica of the Aztec Sun Stone ... on esteemed sites such as the BBC ...