The Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is often confused as the "Mexican Halloween" because of its use of skeletons and when the holiday is celebrated: Nov. 1 to Nov. 2. It's actually an Aztec ...

Sugar skulls, also called calaveritas de azúcar (or calaveritas, for short), are literally skulls made from sugar. They’re found in Mexico and Mexican households for the Day of the Dead, or Día de los ...

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The Aztec skull whistle produces a shrill, screaming sound. A study shows that these whistles have a disturbing effect on the human brain. The Aztecs may have deliberately used this effect in ...

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 Communications ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico’s famous holiday is actually a lively commemoration of the departed.

This is a guest post written by Yvonne Condes, originally published in 2014. Every year that my boys were in elementary school, we would make sugar skulls for Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) for ...

Mexican archaeologists said Friday they uncovered the largest number of skulls ever found in one offering at the most sacred temple of the Aztec empire dating back more than 500 years. The finding ...

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