To do that, the team explored and analyzed artifacts found at Chavín de Huántar, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Andean highlands some 250 miles north of Lima. Made from stone, the ruins ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unearthed in Peru, the small underground room may have been used for rituals involving psychoactive drugs. New research suggests these "exclusive" events were reserved for the elite ...

Researchers at the Chavín de Huántar archaeological site, located in the central Peruvian Andes, have revealed an ancestral practice that sheds new light on the power dynamic and worldview of ...

Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their power. Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known ...

Hace 28 años, el Perú vivió uno de los episodios más intensos de su historia: el rescate de 72 rehenes de la residencia del embajador de Japón, en Lima, a manos del MRTA. Un operativo que fue ...