Long before the rise of the Inca empire, a group called the Chavín people thrived in ancient Peru. They’re known for their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was common for ancient cultures to communally take hallucinogens, but this society did things much differently.

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

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient snuff tubes in the Andes, revealing how "drugs" reinforced social hierarchies in the ...

An ancient society in the Peruvian Andes likely used psychoactive drugs during exclusive rituals that may have helped ...

A team of archaeologists discovered ancient snuff tubes carved from hollow bones at the heart of monumental stone structures ...