About 1,900 years ago, someone in what is now the Netherlands hollowed out a sheep or goat femur, filled it with poisonous, hallucinogenic black seeds and sealed it with tar. Eventually, the bone ...

It's no secret that drinking too much beer can make your head feel like it's spinning. But things could get way worse for beer drinkers in the Middle Ages, when the drink could cause full-on ...

Two new archaeological finds suggest Roman subjects at the northern edge of the ancient empire used a hallucinogenic and poisonous plant called black henbane, the effects of which were described by ...

Archaeologists working at the site of Houten-Castellum in the Netherlands uncovered the first conclusive evidence that Romans collected seeds from the black henbane plant, a toxic member of the ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A hollowed-out animal bone was used by Romans to store a stash of poisonous seeds and is the first-ever evidence of the seeds' use during the Roman era. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

An ancient animal bone filled with poisonous and hallucinogenic seeds was unearthed in the Netherlands, archaeologists said. Photo from BIAX Consult via Antiquity and Cambridge University Press About ...