Oracle of Delphi Secrets Revealed

Myth and science meet at Delphi, where the ancient Greeks said the oracle (always a woman), in a trance and often a frenzy, spoke on behalf of the gods. Scholarship rejected the claim that vapors rising from the temple’s floor inspired the oracle. But now, a wealth of evidence compiled by a geologist, archaeologist, chemist, and toxicologist suggests the ancients were right, and the discovery of two faults intersecting below the temple indicate the geology could have released intoxicating fumes.