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

Credit: Dan Contereras/John Rick/Cover Images Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of humans smoking psychedelic drugs in the Peruvian Andes. Around 2,000 years before the Inca empire ...

Researchers analyzed 788 obsidian artifacts from Tenochtitlan, revealing that the Mexica (Aztec) Empire sourced this important material from at least eight different locations, including regions ...

A MYSTERIOUS ancient society was using hollowed-out bones to take drugs inside an “exclusive” psychedelics chamber. The long-abandoned drug den was where ancient Andeans would consume ...

We know this for a fact: For the first time, direct chemical evidence of these drugs has been found, in residual traces left ...

Researchers discovered that pre-Inca stone structures from the mountains of Peru had secret rooms accessible to only the most ...

The oldest evidence of psychoactive plant use was found in the Andes, revealing how societies used mind-altering drugs to ...

Hallucinogens proved to be one of the most powerful tools of Peru's ancient Chavín Phenomenon society for maintaining ...

Two thousand years before the Inca Empire extended its dominion over the Andes, a much less known yet culturally influential ...

Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes ... It was part of a tightly controlled ritual, likely reserved for a select few, reinforcing the social hierarchy," said Daniel Contreras ...

Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their power.

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...