the sacred Inca ceremony of human sacrifice, but with each new archaeological discovery of a sacrificial mummy, more is revealed. The earliest and only known written accounts of the ritual are ...

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

Many theories exist about why the Incas performed ritual ceremonies, which sometimes included human sacrifices, at elevations approaching 23,000 feet. Most scholars agree that the purpose of the ...

The mighty Incan empire wasn’t the first society to ... Evidence indicating psychoactive-centric rituals comes from deep inside the massive stone structures at Chavín de Huántar, a prehistoric ...

Sacred sites connected to rituals and the divine could ... The capacocha was a sacrificial rite among the Inca that usually involved the sacrifice of children at sacred shrines known as huacas ...

The presence of the "snuff tubes" in a hidden room suggests the elite held secret, drug-fueled rituals in pre-Inca times ... old tomb in Peru holds human sacrifices, including strangled son ...