guy Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 (edited) Pottery vessel with opium found at Tel YehudAssaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority This finding of opium in a Canaanite grave confirms the belief that psychoactive drugs were part of the ancient world. Quote A new study by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and The Weizmann Institute of Science has revealed the earliest known evidence of the use of the hallucinogenic drug opium, and psychoactive drugs in general, in the world. The opium residue was found in ceramic vessels discovered at Tel Yehud, in an excavation conducted by Eriola Jakoel on behalf of the Antiquities Authority. The vessels that contained the opium date back to the 14th century BCE, and they were found in Canaanite graves, apparently having been used in local burial rituals. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/360096 This is the 2020 find of cannabis at an ancient Jewish alter. This cannabis find, however, is dated 600 years after the opium discovery: Edited September 23, 2022 by guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy Posted September 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Another article on the site: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-evidence-of-earliest-known-opium-use-180980823/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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