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Published online 17 July 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010719-10
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New evidence of the geological origins of the ancient Delphic oracle (Greece)
Ancient prophesies made at Delphi may have been inspired by natural gas.
The Greeks and Romans took their prophesies from a woman who was high on the fumes of natural gas, say US geologists1. Geological surveys of the site of the Greek Temple of Apollo in Delphi reveal that the temple ruins lie over a fault cross that emits intoxicating vapours.
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