Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...

Traces of drug use go back to ancient times with research showing that the Greeks and Romans used and sometimes abused ...

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 ...

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 study’s authors note that ...

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 ...

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

Archaeologists exploring the numerous underground chambers at the ancient Chavín de Huántar complex in Peru have found evidence of ritual practices involving hallucinogenic drugs, confirming long-held ...

At Badrinath Dham, a portion of the sacred ‘Rajbhog’ is offered to cockroaches—a tradition believed to have started in the 8th century by Adi Shankaracharya at the deity’s relocated site.