At Chavín de Huántar, archaeologists discovered a network of hidden rooms they called galleries, built into the larger stone ...

That includes ancient Egypt, as well as ancient Greek, Vedic, Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures. The Urarina people who live in the Peruvian Amazon Basin still use a psychoactive brew called ayahuasca in ...

Thousands of years ago in modern-day Peru, hallucinogenic plants were in use in ritual ceremonies at the renowned Chavín de ...

Archaeologists have found evidence that psychedelic drugs and 'snuff tubes' were used in rituals at a pre-Inca site in Peru.

Unearthed in Peru, the small underground room may have been used for rituals involving psychoactive drugs. New research ...

We know this for a fact: For the first time, direct chemical evidence of these drugs has been found, in residual traces left on the paraphernalia used for their consumption. It's the earliest known ...

In a new study, archaeologists uncovered 2,500-year-old psychoactive drug paraphernalia in an archaeological site in the ...

To do that, the team explored and analyzed artifacts found at Chavín de Huántar, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Andean highlands some 250 miles north of Lima. Made from stone, the ruins ...

a major pre-Incan culture that thrived between 900 and 200 B.C. The room was found to contain 23 artifacts “associated with consumption of psychoactive plants” — including hollowed-out bird ...