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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The discovery sheds new light on the Chavín civilization, a culture that predates the Inca and left a lasting imprint on ... likely reserved for a select few, reinforcing the social hierarchy,” said ...

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The presence of the "snuff tubes" in a hidden room suggests the elite held secret, drug-fueled rituals in pre-Inca times ... drug use reinforced the social hierarchy, creating an elite class ...