Ancient Germanic Warriors Took Drugs When Preparing for Battle, Study Suggests
How would you prepare for conflict ? If you were a Teutonic warrior from Northern Europe during the Roman menstruum , you may have sniffed some narcotic . A team of three Polish researchers , include archeologist Andrzej Kokowski and two biologists from Maria Curie - Sklodowska University , has hint that Teutonic people of Northern Europe living outside of the Roman Empire used stimulants during war . Their finding , detail in a November 26studypublished in the journalDe Gruyter , challenge the notion that only Mediterranean civilizations used narcotics in ancientness ....