2017年1月20日 · Historical accounts show evidence of opium use dating back to the ancient Sumerian civilization, nearly 5,000 years ago. While some records indicate recreational consumption, the drug’s earliest use was primarily linked to religion and mysticism.

2023年6月10日 · That might’ve been because Egyptians were all for using drugs: for medicine, for religion, and even for fun! Opiates, cannabis, henbane, blue lotus - think of any narcotic, and the pharaohs tried them at some point. But why were they so open about drug use in society, and where did they even find them? Most of these don’t even grow near the ...

In this article I present a brief history of the poppy and its increasingly ominous role on the international stage, tracing the plant's career in Egypt up through the re-cent emergence of the Sinai as Egypts leading opium-growing region. I then describe bedouin poppy husbandry and its impacts on local ecosystems and community rela-tions.

This paper analyzes the existence and use of opium in ancient Egypt, its introduction in the country and references to opium as a medicinal ingredient. Some prescriptions in medical papyri are mentioned as records confirming the application of opium.

2009年8月18日 · Little is known about the use of intoxicants in ancient Egypt beyond the widespread consumption of beer, as part of the staple diet, and wine, by the elite. The cultural use of alcohol by the Egyptians is well documented and will not be considered here.

Nevertheless, this paper suggests that opium may have been introduced in ancient Egypt in the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1350 BCE), although records for the commerce of the drug may point to the end of the Ptolemaic Period, influencing Greek medicine and expanding its use throughout the Roman Period onwards.

2017年6月12日 · Opium use in ancient Egypt flourished under the reign of King Tutankhamen, around 1333-1324 B.C., and the Greek author Homer referred to opium’s healing powers in the Odyssey.

Evidence (chemical, botanical, artefactual, and linguistic) for the supposed presence of the opium poppy and opium in Egypt in the Late Bronze Age is briefly reviewed. These considerations and the negative outcome of the present analyses mean that the earlier reported finding can no longer be accepted as evidence.

Ancient Egyptian and Greek pharmacopoeias reveal frequent use of different drugs, somniferous or narcotic, which contain poisonous elements, and poppy and others are found.

2008年2月4日 · In the 1960s, Merrillees introduced the idea that opium was stored and transported in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean in peculiar juglets resembling the seed head of an opium poppy. ... ... As...