As we mentioned in our midyear albums list, one of the biggest themes of 2025 on the Billboard charts has largely been about ...

Studies found that the Ancient Greeks and Romans used, and periodically abused, hemp and opium. Credit: public domain Drug use goes back to ancient times, with research showing that the Greeks and ...

A Medieval Skeleton With a Shattered Knee Just Changed What We Thought About Disability in the Middle Ages A wounded man in 14th-century Lund reshapes how we understand care, status, and disability.

Medieval skeleton reveals what Swedish disability care was really like Research from Sweden analyzed the skeleton of a disabled man to determine what disability care was like in the Middle Ages.

Medieval Skeleton Reveals What Life Was Like With a Disability in the Middle Ages Learn how researchers combined modern tech, text, and bones to uncover details about a disabled man’s life in medieval ...

A 1,000 year-old human skeleton which was buried sitting cross-legged in India has been moved to a museum six years after it was excavated. The BBC had reported earlier this month that the ...

This is the dark history of Manchukuo based on fact. In Manchukuo, which was a puppet state of Japan, opium was rampant, and the sales of opium supported the national finances and were used as ...

An “extremely rare” 16,000-year-old canine skeleton from southern France offers evidence that Stone Age humans cared for their pets – although the animal was also probably killed by humans ...

1880s opium trail infected city-folk and pioneers alike, across states and the Dakota Territory From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium ...

The longevity of the Taliban’s opium ban hinges on a multifaceted approach.

In this episode of “Stories from the Collection,” Emma from the DEA Museum highlights an opium pipe and explores the history of early opium use and legislation in the United States. The ...

Why are Afghan opium prices soaring? Explained In 2024, opium prices reached ₹ 65,486 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from ₹ 6,535 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy ...