Have We Finally Uncovered The Key To The Eleusinian Mysteries, The Most Fiercely Guarded Secret Of Ancient Greece?
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Photo: Eleusis. Photo credit: Carole Raddato via Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0. Article by Benjamin Taub. IFLScience – February 16, 2026. Research article: Scientific Reports.
For over a thousand years, people from across the Mediterranean flocked to the temple of Eleusis in Greece to take part in a ritual so secretive that anyone caught talking about it was immediately sentenced to death. Known as the Eleusinian Mysteries, this cult-like practice is thought to have involved the use of mind-altering drugs, and scientists may now have finally figured out which substance was supplied to initiates. […]
