Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

Traces of drug use go back to ancient times with research showing that the Greeks and Romans used and sometimes abused ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Opium traces have been discovered in Israel in vessels used in burial rituals by the ancient Canaanites, providing one of the world's earliest evidences of use of ...

There was morphinan, which comes from morphine, as well as opianic acid and other compounds in the chemical signature of opium. While no one knows for sure, it is likely the ancient Caananites ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy.

A case in point is the small instrument of ancient Asian tradition that ... early connections between dotchins and opium reflects the fact that opium was seldom used or abused in China. That situation ...

In a little more than two decades, China fought two wars with foreign powers over an illicit opium trade that had ... of wall paintings broken from ancient temples in Dunhuang and Gansu provinces ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial ...