Analysis of Inca mummies identifies the drugs used in their most important sacrificial ritual
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Archaeologists have performed toxicological analysis on the mummified remains of people sacrificed at mountain shrines across the Inca Empire, revealing the psychoactive substances they consumed before their deaths.
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