Discovering the burial custom of marijuana in a 2,500-year-old tomb

Recently, Chinese archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb and discovered a dead body of about 2,500 years old. Notably, this human skeleton is covered with a layer of cannabis like a shroud.

In a report published recently in the journal Economic Botany, archaeologist Hongen Jiang and his colleagues described the process of burying an 35-year-old adult in Turpan, northwestern China. .

The cannabis plant is located on the body of a middle-aged man about 35 years old in the tomb of 2,500 years in Turpan, China.

It is known that this corpse was buried about 2,400 - 2,800 years earlier. Remarkably, the corpse was placed on a wooden bed, resting on a reed pillow and covered with a layer of marijuana. Specifically, there are 13 marijuana plants covered on corpses, each of which is about 0.91m long and is crossed from the pelvis to the chin, slightly to the left side of the face.

According to National Geographic, this is the first time archaeologists can fully restore cannabis from an ancient human tomb. At the same time, the discovery of this corpse was also the first time the cannabis plant was used as a shroud. This opens us up to a new burial burial custom in ancient Eurasian culture.

Marijuana plants have a completely intact state.

"This archaeological evidence shows us that, thousands of years ago, the use of marijuana was very popular in Eurasian prairies," said Hongen archaeologist Hongen.