Study Reveals Egyptian King May Have Used Opium Stored In Alabaster Vessel

Researchers believe that these findings will bring a new change in the understanding of ancient medical and medicinal ...

'Ukrainian plot' to kill high-ranking Putin official using booby-trapped flowers at his parents' grave is foiled, Kremlin claims - with Sergei Shoigu the rumoured target

The country's Federal Security Service (FSB) also added that a husband and wife assassin has been arrested in connection with ...
TASS Russian News Agency

FSB says foils terrorist attack against top Russian official

MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. The Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a terrorist attack against a top Russian official – an explosion that was to be carried out at the grave of his loved ones ...
TASS Russian News Agency

Detainees were promised drugs for preparing assassination of senior Russian official — FSB

The Russian Federal Security Service reported that it had thwarted an attack on one of Russia’s top officials during his visit to the graves of close relatives at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery ...

Opium use in ancient Egypt: Alabaster vase residue points to widespread use

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, ...

What it’s like to be Frankenstein, Willy Wonka and Paddington's florist

On-set florist Amanda Willgrave, who is based at London’s New Covent Garden Flower Market, has spent over two decades bringing her cinematic arrangements to screens both big and small, providing ...