Karen Polinger Foster

Karen Polinger Foster, a retired lecturer at Yale University, specializes in the art of the Aegean, Egypt, and the ancient Near East. Together with Diana Stein and Sarah Kielt Costello, she edited the anthology Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World, published by Routledge in December 2021.

Reconstruction of Teleilat el Ghassul

From Opium to Saffron, the Ancients Knew a Thing or Two About Drugs From Opium to Saffron, the Ancients Knew a Thing or Two About Drugs

Scholars of antiquity are finding ever more evidence that psychoactive substances played a central role in ancient life.

Mar 22, 2022 / Feature / Karen Polinger Foster, Diana Stein, and Sarah Kielt Costello

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