A new study by a team of international archaeologists reveals the role that hallucinogenic drugs played in the ancient Chavin culture (900-250 B.C.), which was different from their counterparts.

Miriam Kolar, a researcher at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research and Acoustics, has been studying the 3,000 year-old Chavin culture in the high plains of Peru.

More than 1,500 years ago, an ancient Andean society of desert dwellers ruled the northern coast of Peru. Before Incan civilization and Hispanic conquest, the sophisticated Moche people lived from ...

The Moche civilization, which thrived from about 350 to 850 C.E., left behind no written records. Instead, their legacy is painted on the walls of their temples and buried in their tombs.

Her face was reconstructed in 2017 using 3D printing based on the skull of an ancient mummy discovered over a decade before in the Chicama Valley, described as the heartland of Moche culture.