Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.
But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 y...
Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.
But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle. If death had a sound, this was it.
Roberto Velazquez believes the Aztecs played this mournful wail from the so-called Whistles of Death before they were sacrificed to the gods.
The 66-year-old mechanical engineer has devoted his career to recreating the sounds of his pre-Columbian ancestors, producing hundreds of replicas of whistles, flutes and wind instruments unearthed in Mexico's ruins.
Among Velazquez's replicas are those that emit a strange cacophony so strong that their frequency nears the maximum range of human hearing.
Chronicles by Spanish priests from the 1500s described the Aztec and Mayan sounds as sad and doleful, although these may have been only what was played in their presence.
Velazquez meticulously researches each noisemaker before replicating it. He travels across Mexico to examine newly unearthed wind instruments, some dating back to 400 B.C. and shaped like animals or deities. He studies reliefs and scans 500-year-old Spanish chronicles.
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well they could see the stars because the air wasn't polluted and they didn't have city lights so they could of seen the stars perfectly bright i don't know but if we right now did not have our technology mankind would of been lost and dumb we would of build houses out of cardboard boxes
OK, they could see the stars and we can see the stars.
So how are they superior?
And if we built houses out of cardboard boxes, that would be advanced technology because the Aztecs did not have the technology to create cardboard boxes.
the main point is they had knowledge way greater then ours the big mystery is how can they built huge temples with out technology & machines and how can they predicted weather change, when cortez arrived etc. by looking at a calendar made of stone so accurate then our calendar there system is way advanced then ours stupid weather people can't get there sttuff straight WOW great technology we have ha! proves there more superior
But your main point is exactly wrong. They did NOT have knowledge way greater than ours. WE KNOW HOW THEY BUILT THE TEMPLES WITHOUT OUR TECHOLOGY. It is no mystery. We could do it too if we wanted to. They predicted weather the way other ancient people did... We do a better job today. We have more accurate calendars.
Your ideas are all wrong. Not a single one of them is based upon correct facts.
you think your right you think all your answers is based on real facts buts it on you i know i am right i seen tv shows about the pyramids read books im telling you what i've heard and read even scientist are baffled of how they build the pyramids with out any mechanical machines so they come up with theories of them building the pyramids with wooden machines and brute strength wat ever
I probably read the book Chariots of the Gods before you were born. I still have it. It is full of incorrect information and even outright fabrications.
for one thing there no proof of them using truck to take these huge bolders and stack them up so perfectly alined
dude have you seen there carvings, they said thats its so cut an clean that even a razor would not fit between the lines thats how i see it so perfect and the main part is they didn't use machines then explain that ??? advanced!!!!
You do know that there are other machines in the world besides trucks, right?
Yes, I have seen their carvings. But what you are referring to is the way the stones fit together. Modern researchers have figured out how they did that and reproduced the same results.
It is not very advanced. It is done with another stone. Stone age technology.
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So how are they superior?
And if we built houses out of cardboard boxes, that would be advanced technology because the Aztecs did not have the technology to create cardboard boxes.
Your ideas are all wrong. Not a single one of them is based upon correct facts.
There is no bafflement about how they did this. We know how they did it.
dude have you seen there carvings, they said thats its so cut an clean that even a razor would not fit between the lines thats how i see it so perfect and the main part is they didn't use machines then explain that ??? advanced!!!!
Yes, I have seen their carvings. But what you are referring to is the way the stones fit together. Modern researchers have figured out how they did that and reproduced the same results.
It is not very advanced. It is done with another stone. Stone age technology.