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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Aztecs

Aztecs stories: 4 news summaries

 Expert Tunes
 Into Aztec
 'Death Whistles' 

Sounds from pre-Columbian ceremonies brought back to life

Jul 1, 08 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Mexican engineer has worked for decades to bring the sounds of the Aztecs back to life, reports the AP. Roberto Velazquez has created replicas of the instruments found at many archaeological sites—including the eerie "Whistles of Death" discovered with a skeleton in an ancient temple—and experimented... More »

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archaeology • Mexico • Aztec • Aztecs

OPINION

At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

Museum 'patronizes, demeans' its subjects

Jun 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Revisiting Chicago’s Field Museum—an institution enshrined in loving childhood memories—for its “The Ancient Americas” exhibit is a sore disappointment, PJ O’Rourke writes in the Weekly Standard. Once a bastion of public scholarship so solemn it contained a section devoted to useful varieties of wood, the... More »

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museum • America • Incas • Aztecs • political correctness • Native Americans • Christopher Columbus • P.J. O'Rourke • Field Museum

Pyramid
Unearthed
in Mexico City

Newfound Aztec ruins predate known sites
by at least a century

Dec 28, 07 10:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of modern Mexico City. The ruins, which are approximately 36 feet high, stand on the former site of Tlatelolco, a center of political and religious power and the twin city of Tenochtitlan. The discovery indicates that the... More »

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archaeology • Mexico City • Mexico • Aztecs • Tlatelolco • Tenochtitlan • discovery

Before It Was Chocolate,
It Was Beer

Sweet treat traced to celebratory Honduran brew 3,100 years ago

Nov 13, 07 8:24 AM CST
(Newser) - Chocolate had its origins at least 3,100 years ago in Central America not as a sweet treat but as a celebratory beer-like beverage, reported scientists yesterday after analyzing residues from ancient pottery vessels. The earliest beverages made from cacao—the source of chocolate—likely were produced by fermenting the... More »

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beer • chocolate • Central America • Aztecs • Ceremonial beverages

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