Researchers discovered opium biomarkers in a 2,500-year-old alabaster vase using nondestructive techniques. The findings provide chemical proof that ancient Egyptians likely consumed opium ...
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Opium in an Egyptian vase raises 1 wild question about King Tut
Archaeologists have long puzzled over the elegant stone jars buried with Tutankhamun, their inscriptions intact but their original contents gone. Now, chemical traces of opium in a different Egyptian ...
Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. Scientists even think King Tut himself may have used the substance. The findings mean opium use ...
New Haven, Conn. — Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium ...
LUXOR, Egypt -- Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government's archaeological events that aim at ...
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