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Opium Residue Discovered In 3,500-Year-Old Pottery Offers Evidence The Drug Was Used In Ancient Burial Rituals

AncientPages.com | September 20, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have once again found people have used evidence opium for thousands of years. While examining several Late Bronze Age graves in the

Archaeology

400-Year-Old Documents Reveal Japanese Opium Was Produced For Medical Purposes

AncientPages.com | April 5, 2018

AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered 400-year-old documents that reveal Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th-century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce opium for medical purposes. A description of