2026-05-10 OPEN Foundation

Science Revisits Kykeon: The Enduring Enigma of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Between approximately 1450 BCE and 392 CE, people from across the Mediterranean traveled from Athens to Eleusis(the current city of Elefsina, Greece) to participate in one of the most revered spiritual traditions of the classical world: the Eleusinian Mysteries 1,2. For nearly two millennia, some of the most influential philosophers, politicians, and emperors of antiquity, […] The post Science Revisits Kykeon: The Enduring Enigma of the Eleusinian Mysteries appeared first on OPEN Foundation.

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