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 ...

Scientists say the drug-consuming bone tools ... The hollow bones were turned into ancient snuff tubes, and were found in stone chambers inside a prehistoric ritual site. It's called Chavín ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of humans smoking psychedelic drugs in the Peruvian Andes. Around 2,000 years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known society known ...

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

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

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 ...

A recent archaeological discovery at the site of Áspero, an ancient coastal settlement belonging to the Caral civilisation on Peru’s coast, sheds new light on women’s importance in this ...

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