The story behind the ambitious exhibition "We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art" at LACMA.

Montezuma Castle National Monument is one of the icons of Arizona you need to visit. Easy to add to a road trip to the Grand ...

With fantastic terraces and storehouses in the ancient Inca ruins at Ollantaytambo ... and encompassed a host of cultures you're probably quite familiar with, including Aztec cultures. The Olmec ...

Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited with emitting the scariest sound on earth — still terrifies people today due to a ...

The wail of the Aztec Death Whistle was the last thing many human sacrifices ever heard before they met their untimely end. The chilling noise is described as the 'scariest sound in the world ...

The Aztec death whistle, a small artifact shaped like a skull, produces one of the most terrifying sounds ever created by an ancient musical instrument (if you can call it musical that is).

Using georadar, they identified some possible ancient Roman ruins and decided to excavate, the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research said in a Nov. 15 news release.

In digging up ancient Aztec graves dating from the years 1250 to 1521 AD, archaeologists have found many examples of small whistles made of clay and formed into the shape of a skull. These ...

What and how one learned depended on one's place in society. In ancient times, much like today, education was highly valued. Subjects could range from reading and writing to philosophy and ethics.

A mummified ice age cub from Siberia is the first known mummy of a sabre-toothed cat, and its discovery is generating ripples of excitement among paleontologists. The mummy's exceptional ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient ...

DNA testing of 14 individuals buried in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii has shown their sex and ethnic background is different to what earlier archaeologists assumed. Nuclear and mitochondrial ...