This important Aztec god embodied both the rising sun and the martial vigor needed to sustain it. Born fully armed atop the sacred Coatepec mountain, his daily triumph over darkness symbolized the sun ...

As its name suggests, an Aztec death whistle can make a most dreadful sound. But the effect depends on how it's played, explains musicologist and archaeologist Arnd Adje Both of the Free University of ...

Miniature camelid effigy: A 600-year-old sculpture of a llama that may have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual Bead net funerary shroud: A 2,500-year-old beaded veil from Egypt depicting the deceased's ...