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A coin from Cyrene depicting silphium: the plant, which only grew locally to the city, became its chief export. Source: ArchaiOptix / CC BY-SA 4.0.
23 SEP 2024 · 6 MIN

Silphium: Can We Rediscover the Roman Wonder Drug?

Cure-alls are, generally speaking, never what they claim. Most medical wonder drugs are nothing of the sort, and snake oil salesmen have existed throughout history, prospering as long as there are people…
Syphilis, Opium and Cocaine, oh my! (Journal of Archaeological Science / CC BY 4.0)
23 SEP 2024 · 1 MIN

Milanese Hospital Bones Suggest Early Use of Cocaine

Researchers in Italy excavating a crypt in Milan’s Ospedale Maggiore have discovered something which sets established history on its head: traces of cocaine in the brains of two bodies, which suggests the…