The white coffin of Monzón was carried by friends and family and paraded through the streets of Trujillo before his burial.

Join the Next Meridian Expedition! Nick & Mathilde are road-tripping the world in their Land Rover Defender, exploring new ...

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, ...

It was common for ancient cultures to communally take hallucinogens, but this society did things much differently.

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 ...

Inside, researchers found nicotine from wild Nicotiana species and vilca, a psychedelic powder derived from the vilca tree.

She said the research found human-induced climate change was warming all of the Andes. "One of the most significant impacts ...

A Lake Andes woman is facing multiple felony charges after allegedly breaking into a Dollar General in Lake Andes and causing more than $5,000 in property damage — all to steal just $156.85 worth of ...

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