{"id":884,"date":"2022-09-20T21:34:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/?p=884"},"modified":"2022-09-20T21:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T21:34:39","slug":"israeli-archaeologists-find-traces-of-opium-in-3500-year-old-pottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/20\/israeli-archaeologists-find-traces-of-opium-in-3500-year-old-pottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli archaeologists find traces of opium in 3,500 year old pottery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israeli archaeologists have discovered opium residue in 3,500 year old pottery pieces, providing evidence to support the theory that the hallucinogenic drug was used in ancient burial rituals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The joint investigation by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Weizmann Institute of Science began in 2012 when excavations in the central Israeli town of Yehud revealed a series of late bronze age graves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers found pottery vessels at the site that resembled poppy flowers from which opium is derived dating to the 14th century BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They examined whether they had served as containers for the drug, which earlier writing had suggested was used in burial rituals in Canaan, and found \u201copium residue in eight vessels\u201d, the researchers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cplaced in graves for ceremonial meals, rites and rituals performed by the living for their deceased family members\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cfamily members or a priest on their behalf\u201d would \u201cattempt to summon the spirit of their dead relatives \u2026 and enter an ecstatic state by using opium\u201d<\/p><cite>said Ron Be\u2019eri, an archaeologist with the antiquities authority<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But he acknowledged that much remained unknown about its use in ancient times. \u201cWe can only speculate what was done with opium,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli archaeologists have discovered opium residue in 3,500 year old pottery pieces,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}