Archaeologists have found evidence that psychedelic drugs and 'snuff tubes' were used in rituals at a pre-Inca site in Peru.

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

In the high Andes Mountains of Peru lies Cusco, the former capital of the Inca Empire. It’s a popular destination for trekkers looking to visit monuments such as Machu Picchu. It’s also a protected ...

We know this for a fact: For the first time, direct chemical evidence of these drugs has been found, in residual traces left ...

Hundreds of artifacts dating back as far as the Late Bronze Age in Hungary point to a warrior class living in what is now wine country. Maite joined the AS USA in 2021, bringing her experience as ...

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

To do that, the team explored and analyzed artifacts found at Chavín de Huántar ... 400 or 500 B.C.E. and are considered a major predecessor to the better-known Inca civilization. While previous ...

The aftermath of a genocide that even our most conservative friends admit and consign to history. In the meantime . . . Given that upper-class sentiments are probably more "valuable" than anything on ...

"The tubes are analogous to the rolled-up bills that high-rollers snort cocaine through in the movies," one researcher said.

In total, the storm caused more than $1 million in structural damage and restoration costs to museum artifacts harmed or lost, said Troy Thrash, Air Zoo CEO/president. But as the one-year ...

When archaeologists explored the gallery, they discovered 23 artifacts carved from animal ... to the more hierarchical Tiwanaku, Wari and Inca empires. These results suggest that additional ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The mighty Incan empire wasn’t the first society to spread across the Andes Mountains—2,000 years earlier, there were the ...