…that built itself around opium was the late minoan civilization. I mean, when they first did the translation, when Michael Ventris first translated linear b, that tallies that they were translating, they thought this symbol was for wheat because the…

…of minoan religion there is no question that opium was the drug of choice and in fact the linear b tablets that Michael Ventris deciphered, they couldn't believe their eyes when they saw what the scale of the opium production. Well if you know anything…

…Michael Chadwick called the decipherment of linear b. Linear b is a proto minoan language and uh a linguist at Cambridge named Michael Ventris, a genius in the 50s, took this language. There was no Rosetta Stone. This is the amazing thing you know what I…

…the oldest human narcotic. No one's civilization was entirely based on opium, on the use of opium and in fact when Michael Ventris translated the tablets, the linear b tablets, they got these tallies and they thought at first that the symbol for opium…