At Chavín de Huántar, archaeologists discovered a network of hidden rooms they called galleries, built into the larger stone ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Getty Archaeologists have discovered evidence of psychedelic drug use and “snuff tubes" in a formally sealed-off chamber at an ancient site in Peru ... while Chavín rituals involving ...

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 ...

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

An ancient society in the Peruvian Andes likely used psychoactive drugs during exclusive rituals that may have helped establish social and political hierarchies seen later throughout the region ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of psychedelic drug use and “snuff tubes" in a previously sealed-off room at an ancient site in Peru The researchers found the room at Chavín de Huántar ...