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Experts Unearth 2,400-Year-Old Solid Gold Bongs In Southern Russia


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2019 Aug 16, 7:11pm   973 views  9 comments

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Not a new story, but new to me.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/56757/20150531/experts-unearth-2-400-year-old-solid-gold-bongs-in-southern-russia.htm

The discovery was initially found in 2013, but was kept as a secret to prevent the site from being looted. Andrei Belinski was the archeologist that began to excavate the kurgan, and initially, he was not optimistic that anything could be found inside the structure because it had signs that it was already plundered.

However, after a few weeks of excavating, Belinski's team discovered a thick clay layer that protected a chamber that was lined with flat and broad stones. Within the chamber were the gold items that were somehow missed by the looters when they scoured the kurgan.

Among the items were a pair of gold vessels in the shape of a bucket, and they were placed upside down in the chamber. In addition to the vessels, there were three cups, a bracelet, a finger ring and two neck rings, all of which were made of gold. In total, the well-preserved artifacts weighed almost seven pounds.

Belinski requested from criminologists to analyze the black residue that was found within the gold vessels. The results revealed that the residue was that of cannabis and opium, confirming accounts written by Herodotus of the drug-based activities of the Scythians.

Historians believe that the Scythians smoked and brewed a concoction that contained cannabis and opium, with the warriors doing so to place them in a certain state of mind before they head out to battle.


No way. A warrior high on weed and opium would be useless in battle. He wouldn't even want to fight.

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1   Bd6r   2019 Aug 17, 7:50am  

Patrick says
No way. A warrior high on weed and opium would be useless in battle. He wouldn't even want to fight.

One of the most successful warriors of all times (vikings) used special 'shrooms to increase their fighting abilities:

Howard, Fabing (Nov 1956). On Going Berserk: A Neurochemical Inquiry. Scientific Monthly 113

Beserkers used large amounts of alcohol or some kind of mushroom: Amanita muscaria is noted for its hallucinogenic properties, with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
2   Shaman   2019 Aug 17, 7:56am  

Yah but both weed and opium are depressants. Combining the two would put you right to sleep. Patrick is just contesting the conclusion reached by the archaeologists as hopelessly naive.
3   Bd6r   2019 Aug 17, 7:58am  

Quigley says
conclusion reached by the archaeologists as hopelessly naive.

Archeologists had not smoked enough weed before coming to their conclusions :)
4   Shaman   2019 Aug 17, 10:14am  

Maybe they’d seen Reefer Madness and figured it made people insane!
5   Ceffer   2019 Aug 17, 10:21am  

This is why they are primitive people. Nowadays, a nice cocktail of viagra, anabolic steroids and dexedrine would do the trick. Kill and Rape, then Kill and Rape some more! HooYaaaa! Opium and Cannabis are hippie shit.
6   Tenpoundbass   2019 Aug 17, 10:29am  

I had to Google for the images. All I could find is a couple of cups and bowls with holes in the bottom, and couple of gold tubing.

They could have been used for anything, and most other ideas would have been more plausible, than they were bongs.

Perhaps fountains, or even incense burners.

7   Tenpoundbass   2019 Aug 17, 10:29am  

Golden bells perhaps?
8   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Aug 17, 12:47pm  

Patrick says
No way. A warrior high on weed and opium would be useless in battle. He wouldn't even want to fight.


You men to the right, you men to the left! I'm gonna walk around here in a circle!

www.youtube.com/embed/1CslOIXporo
9   Patrick   2019 Aug 17, 1:41pm  

Tenpoundbass says
They could have been used for anything, and most other ideas would have been more plausible, than they were bongs.


They claim to have solid chemical proof that they were used to burn cannabis and opium:

Patrick says
Belinski requested from criminologists to analyze the black residue that was found within the gold vessels. The results revealed that the residue was that of cannabis and opium, confirming accounts written by Herodotus of the drug-based activities of the Scythians.

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