Detail from 'The Illustrated London News', painting of a poppy flower by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, and detail from WS Sherwill's illustrations, in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Yale British ...

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Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered residue of opium in eight vessels that are shaped like upside-down poppy flowers - the plant from which it is derived.