The oldest evidence of psychoactive plant use was found in the Andes, revealing how societies used mind-altering drugs to ...

A TOWERING mountain that rises suddenly from the flat Amazon rainforest is cloaked in mystery. Cerro el Cono, the steep ...

The 1,310ft-tall peak shoots up from Sierra del Divisor National Park in eastern Peru, near the border with Brazil. Its shape is strikingly similar to the pyramids of Giza - with broad, flat sides ...

A strange pyramid-shaped peak in Peru is shrouded in mystery, mainly because this geographic marvel is so hard to reach.

A remarkable discovery has been made in the Peruvian Amazon, where the mysterious peak of Cerro El Cono has drawn attention ...

“I did not have a lot of money,” he told me, “so I had to make my living there.” He became a teacher. He built a house. He and his wife had children. That rare experience of joining the community, he ...

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

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

Chavín was a major center of ritual activity between 1200 B.C. and 400 B.C., before the birth of the Inca empire. The complex included stone structures built around open plazas. As people added ...