[1/5]Vessels that contained opium in the 14th century BC, when it was used by Canaanites as an offering for the dead, according to a study by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University ...

Steven Poole reviews Lucy Inglis’s history of opium: “The author’s style is perky and informal, which can result in her writing such things as ‘the drug is both a tremendous force for good ...