Today, the temples, canals, and plazas of Chavín de Huántar stand mostly in ruins. But the site (about 250 kilometers north of Lima, Peru) was once was the heart of the Chavín culture, a civilization ...

It was common for ancient cultures to communally take hallucinogens, but this society did things much differently. An international team of archaeologists has revealed the role hallucinogenic drugs ...

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In 2022, we told you about a study reporting evidence that an ancient Peruvian people called the Wari laced the beer served at their feasts with hallucinogens—particularly a substance derived from the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a secret "drug room" in the ancient Peruvian city of Chavín. This discovery is exciting because archaeologists always believed psychedelic substances were used within ...

Context, construction and ritual in the development of authority at Chavín de Huántar / John W. Rick -- The architecture at the monumental center of Chavín de Huántar : sequence, transformations and ...