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Posted on 11/12/2025 4:31:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv
According to an IFL Science report, traces of opium have been detected in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase held in Yale University's Peabody Museum. A team of researchers led by Andrew J. Koh of Yale University used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to analyze the sticky, dark-brown residue with a distinct odor that was found in the jar. Noscapine, hydrocotarnine, morphine, thebaine, and papaverine -- all diagnostic biomarkers for opium -- were identified. The alabastron bears inscriptions written in Akkadian, Elamite, Persian, and Egyptian, and names “Great King” Xerxes I, who ruled Persia in the fifth century B.C. It had been previously suggested that such vases held perfumes or cosmetics for royal elites, but Koh and his colleagues now think they were made to hold opium. Read the original scholarly article about this research in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies. To read about the surprising mixture that researchers recently found in another ancient vessel, go to "Artifact: Egyptian Bes Cup."
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“ I didn’t inhale.” - Xerxes .
Every since year dot we have been looking for ways to make pain go away.
Did Hunter Biden ever go over there to do some shyster business with them?
“And though I am but a soldier and it isn’t my decision, they want to see the opium burned and the harvesters dead”. Corbin, John
When was Hunter Biden there?
They knew about a lot of plants and flowery stuff, even that evil weed that was said to have been used by negros.
https://bxscience.edu/ourpages/auto/2008/11/10/43216077/egypt%20medicine.pdf
Egypt was under Persian rule at the time, but as they pulled out, the Egyptians just smiled and waved, sitting on that sack of seeds.
70s flashback
AM radio in the backyard.
( I had no idea what the song meant)
😳
So the Pharaohs were all drug addicts.................explains much, it does............
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