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The Murky History Of The Aztec Death Whistle, The Screaming Instrument Said To Make The Most Terrifying Sound In The World
Curiously, in each of its hands, the skeleton held a small ceramic ... Mictlantecuhtli, the god of the underworld and death. Hence, the instruments came to be known commonly as “Aztec death ...
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The Skeleton Queen: How La Catrina Became the Icon of Day of the Dead
In 1910, during the Mexican Revolution, Posada created an illustration of a female skeleton dressed ... the Aztec serpent god ...
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Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams
Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles ... of the main stairway of a temple dedicated to the wind god Ehecatl. The skeleton was clutching two ceramic skull-shaped whistles ...
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Bites on gladiator bones prove combat with lion
Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the ... "We could tell that the bites happened at around the time of death. "So this wasn't an animal scavenging after the individual ...