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Was King Tut’s Tomb Filled With Opiates? Yale Study Unlocks Ancient Secret
An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster vase from the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has been found to contain traces of opiates, offering the strongest evidence so far that opium was widely [...]