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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside, researchers found nicotine from wild Nicotiana species and vilca, a psychedelic powder derived from the vilca tree.

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 ...

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