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Analysis of Egyptian alabaster vessel reveals widespread opium use from Xerxes to King Tut

A new analysis of an inscribed alabaster vase from the Yale Babylonian Collection has produced the strongest scientific evidence to date that opium played a wider role in ancient Egyptian life than was previously known...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/egyptian-vessel-analysis-reveals-opium-use/

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New post: Babylonia and Beyond the River, or the peculiar geography of the Neo-Babylonian Empire https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/05/31/babylonia-and-across-the-river/ #achaemenidEmpire #histodons #ancMedToot

Classic post: what do Darius the Great and Julius Caesar have in common? https://www.bookandsword.com/2015/11/21/veni-vidi-vici/ #histodons #ancMedToot #philology #achaemenidEmpire #businessBabylonian

New post: Greek soldiers in the Achaemenid empire. "The Neo-Assyrians and Neo-Babylonians deported all kinds of people to the cores of their empires, gave them land to work, and extracted civil or military service from them. By the Achaemenid period Babylonians often provided a substitute or paid a fee rather than serve themselves. Hiring Greeks for coins was just another way of obtaining foreign soldiers."

https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/09/07/greek-soldiers-in-the-achaemenid-empire/ #histodons #antiquidons #achaemenidEmpire

Archaeologist Henry P. Colburn features in this Archaeology magazine on Udjahorresnet the Egyptian turncoat https://archaeology.org/issues/online/collection/egypt-persian-period-udjahorresnet/ #archaeology #egyptology #antiquidons #achaemenidEmpire

El Cubo de Zoroastro en Naqsh-e Rostam, Irán, copia del siglo V a.C. de la Prisión de Salomón en Pasargada, ni siquiera tenía que ver con la religión. Se considera una tumba real aqueménida. 🏛️Herbert karim masihi #Iran #ImperioAqueménida #Achaemenidempire #persia