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

Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their power.

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...

Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known society known as the Chavín Phenomenon shared ...

Although their own name for themselves remains unknown, the Chavín of Peru clearly shared common agricultural techniques, ...

That includes ancient Egypt, as well as ancient Greek, Vedic, Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures. The Urarina people who live in the Peruvian Amazon Basin still use a psychoactive brew called ayahuasca in ...