When I was 15, my friend bought a double-perc bong with a blown-glass octopus on the side, and everyone thought it was the coolest shit in the world until he got too high and knocked it off a park bench and it shattered. It turns out that his 16-inch color-changing glass bong was not as cool as we all thought it was back in freshman year of high school—archaeologists in Russia recently dug up some much fancier weed-smoking devices that date as far back as 2,400 years ago, National Geographicreports.

The bongs are solid gold and were found buried in "kurgans," or grave mounds. Archaeologists believe them to have once belonged to Scythian chiefs—a nomadic people who founded a powerful empire based in an area that is now Crimea. The golden bongs still have bits of weed and opium resin in the bowls, and archaeologist Anton Gass told National Geographic that the fact that "both drugs were being used simultaneously is beyond doubt." Hell yeah.

These pre-biblical humans may not have had ice catches or percolators, but they did have solid gold bongs stamped with exquisitely detailed scenes of bravery and violence which they used to rip dirty bowls of weed and opium. That's cooler than a glass octopus.

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Some golden, non-bong Scythian relics. Photo via WikiCommons