Felix Nussbaum - Gallows (1930).
Triumph of Death
Felix Nussbaum
1944
New Publication of Selected Insects
Alternate Title: 志ん板む志尽くし
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japan, 1839-1892)
Japan, 19th century
LACMA
Extraordinarily detailed and dynamic black-and-white mosaics from the Baths of Neptune in Ostica Antica, the port for ancient Rome.
Typical “Marijuana” Brazier and Burned Stones, China, 500 B.C,
Residue found in tombs deep in a Central Asian mountain range suggests that strong cannabis was used in ancient burial rites.
Evidence of this practice comes from Jirzankal Cemetery in Central Asia’s Pamir Mountains, says a team led by archaeologist Yimin Yang of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Chemical residues on wooden burners unearthed in tombs there provide some of the oldest evidence to date of smoking or inhaling cannabis fumes, the researchers report online June 12 in Science Advances.
Rituals aimed at communicating with the dead or a spirit world likely included cannabis smoking, the team speculates.
Credit: Xinhua Wu