Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice victims for their journey to the underworld.

Researchers finally have an answer as to why the sound of the whistles is so scary. Aztec death whistles, or skull whistles, are small clay creations from ancient Mesoamerica, particularly the ...

The family of a man left with a shattered skull after a masked gang beat him with iron bars have said the horror of what ...