Delphi Was Built on a Vapor Crack

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]The Oracle of Delphi sat directly above a fissure that vented hallucinogenic gas. Pilgrims came from across the Mediterranean to ask the priestess seated above the crack for prophecy.

[00:00:13]For 2,500 [music] years, the gas was treated as divine breath rising from the underworld. In 2001, geologists [music] confirmed it was ethylene, the gas modern anesthesiologists used until the 1970s. [music] Like and subscribe for more Time Prime history.