Photos show the ancient circular structure where elites would set fire to offerings of beads, food or other items.

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

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Thousands of years ago in modern-day Peru, hallucinogenic plants were in use in ritual ceremonies at the renowned Chavín de ...

The Chavin people were finally proven to use psychedelic substances as part of the rituals the elite members of society ...

The body’s exceptional state of conservation—with skin, hair and nails still intact—is relatively uncommon in the region, ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient tomb and ceremonial offerings in Peru’s ancient Kuélap city shedding light on Chachapoya ...

A vandal has daubed an image of a penis on a wall at a centuries-old Peruvian city recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage ...

Ancient Chavín elites used hallucinogens in private rituals to strengthen their authority and shape early social hierarchies. Two thousand years before the Inca empire rose to power in the Andes, a le ...

Officials said the unique structure and ritual offerings were first-of-their-kind discoveries at the Amazonas archaeological site.

Authorities in Peru are searching for a suspect after the ... The damage at Chan Chan follows an incident in February at the ancient city of Cusco in which a man attacked a feature of the Inca ...