High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop.

Chemical analysis reveals traces of a number of psychoactive compounds thought to have been used to secure leaders' status ...

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

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

Credit: Dan Contereras/John Rick/Cover Images Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of humans smoking psychedelic drugs in the Peruvian Andes. Around 2,000 years before the Inca empire ...

the Andes are the world's longest continental mountain range. They pass through seven countries, including Colombia, Peru, ...

They are not just mountains. They’re Apus ... But people in the Andes of Peru are changing that. The guide wears a traditional red woven Andean poncho. He sets his llamas to graze on the ...

Climate change isn’t just a future threat for the Andes mountain ... range, which crosses seven South American nations from Argentina and Chile in the south, through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador ...

In Peru's capital, Lima, the bells of the cathedral rang after Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as Pope Francis' ...

Researchers discovered that pre-Inca stone structures from the mountains of Peru had secret rooms accessible ... of psychoactive plant use in the Andes. They found the tubes in monumental stone ...