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 use in ancient ...
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Opium nearly smoked out China, made Britain acquire tainted wealth, laid the foundation of the fortunes of many a notorious trading house, and made several early 19th-century ...
Bronze Age humans living in the Levant may have getting high on psychoactive drugs, according to a new study that found traces of opium in 3,500-year-old ceramic vessels from Tel Yehud, a Canaanite ...
Image of a Chinese man smoking an opium pipe while seated in a chair outside a building in 1928. (Photo and caption info courtesy of the San Diego History Center) A few blocks inland from San Diego’s ...
A few blocks inland from San Diego’s early waterfront, near Third and J Streets, a dense cluster of buildings formed the core of the city’s original Chinatown. Behind storefronts and boarding houses, ...