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 in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing traces of psychedelic snuff and tobacco. The presence of the "snuff tubes" in a ...

Experts confirm the first concrete evidence of psychoactive plants used at the famed Chavín de Huántar complex. A rendering of the chamber, or gallery, at the Chavín de Huántar complex where drug ...

The ancient world was shaped not only by empires and monuments but by the strange and symbolic rituals that people believed kept their worlds in balance. Across continents, civilisations practised ...

The theory that sacred rituals in the ancient world were secretly powered by psychoactive substances has gained traction in books like "The Road to Eleusis" (1978) and "The Immortality Key (2020), and ...