Known as the "Aztec death whistle," this object is an ancient Mesoamerican wind instrument typically crafted into the shape ...

Aztec communities may therefore have used the scary sounds in specific ritual contexts, such as ceremonies involving death. "Skull whistles might have been used to scare the human sacrifice or the ...

Experts say that Druids in the Celtic era possibly committed ritual human sacrifice on a mass scale. Julius Caesar, who led the first Roman landing in 55 BC, said the native Celts ‘believed that ...

While Spanish chroniclers documented ritual sacrifice among Ecuador’s coastal societies, limb removal was never specifically mentioned. However, Benzoni, an Italian explorer, noted that human ...

Romans kept dogs as pets, exemplified in this mosaic from the second or third century A.D. Some of the bones from the ritual deposit ... out the possibility of human sacrifice—slitting the ...

While woke culture is in retreat in the United States under President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is ...

“European chroniclers actually don’t mention limb removal, but they do describe the ritual sacrifice of individuals,” noted Juengst. “Benzoni, an Italian explorer, describes the practice of human ...

In a press conference organised on Tuesday, Shaikh said that the victim, Rita Tadvi, had not been killed as human sacrifice. Shaikh said, “Earlier, it was being said that the murder was a crime by an ...

A new study into the enigmatic Vittrup Man reveals new clues about his origins and the harsh way of life that led to his death millennia ago.

A man in his mid-forties, said to be “mentally unsound”, was arrested for allegedly killing his four-year-old neighbour and “offering” her blood at the steps of the temple inside his home in Panej ...