Indigenous cultures across South America have long used these plants for inducing visions ... that made people believe this whole project was a good idea.” This ancient culture left a rich legacy.

A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and ...

The burial belongs to the ancient Caral culture, the oldest civilization in the Americas The 24 members of the mysterious Chuquibamba culture were interred with valuable grave goods The stone ...

An ancient woman’s recently discovered, richly adorned gravesite is helping archeologists better understand the complex gender relationships in South America’s oldest known civilization.

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

How did this ancient South Asian tradition seep into the American culture? Yoga’s ancient roots are found in the ancient Hindu text, the Rig Veda, said to be more than 3,000 years old.