Ancient Chavín elites used hallucinogens in private rituals to strengthen their authority and shape early social hierarchies. Two thousand years before the Inca empire rose to power in the Andes, a le ...

New research published in Communications Biology has uncovered the earliest known use of the medicinal and psychoactive plant ...

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

Photos show the ancient circular structure where elites would set fire to offerings of beads, food or other items.

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In 2017, archaeologists excavating underground chambers at the Chavín de Huántar site in the Peruvian Andes discovered more ...

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

Chemical analysis reveals traces of a number of psychoactive compounds thought to have been used to secure leaders' status ...

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

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

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 ...

The discovery of ancient bones carved into tubes in the mountains of Peru led researchers to conduct ... “It was part of a tightly controlled ritual, likely reserved for a select few ...