The older girl was buried with a large clay Aztec-style figurine depicting a female figure holding a child. Her skull showed signs of possible anemia, malnutrition or infection, signs that suggest ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A museum exhibit displaying Aztec ritual offerings dug up ... both male and female. Sign up here. Reuters gained exclusive access to the exhibit at the Mexican ...

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes. A new paper published in the journal ...

Aztec death whistles have a unique instrumental construction To understand the physical mechanisms behind the whistle's shrill and screeching sound, a team of researchers at the University of ...