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Kristina Killgrove

Secret 'drug room' full of psychedelic 'snuff tubes' discovered at pre-Inca site in Peru

Drawing of the inside of an ancient room showing two people taking drugs.

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing traces of psychedelic snuff and tobacco. The presence of the "snuff tubes" in a hidden room suggests the elite held secret, drug-fueled rituals in pre-Inca times.

"The tubes are analogous to the rolled-up bills that high-rollers snort cocaine through in the movies," Daniel Contreras, an archaeologist at the University of Florida, told Live Science in an email.

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