Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Among the Incas, sensory experience served as both a marker of status and a conduit to the supernatural. Ritual was preceded by a deprivation of sensation, especially taste, and followed by the ...

Others think it was a pilgrimage site to honor the founding of the Inca religion, or likely some combination of a spiritual and official estate built in a sacred landscape. Due to the discovery of ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the remote Peruvian island of Taquile, in the middle of the great Lake Titicaca, hundreds of people stand in silence on ...

Mesoamerican origins -- Maya agriculture -- Maya society -- Maya religion -- A Mayan temple -- Maya calendar and writing system -- Daily life aamong the Mayas -- Rise of the Aztecs -- Daily life in an ...

Previous research has largely drawn on texts created by Spanish colonizers. Pedro Szekely via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Machu Picchu, the breathtaking mountainside settlement in southern ...