The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies

Controversial theory - The Science community doesn't want to touch this with a ten foot pole. lol ...Controversial theory - The Science community doesn't want to touch this with a ten foot pole. lol They should its a mystery so it must be analyzed, is it a hoax, contamination, unknown plants or travel? Report on the baffling presence of nicotine and cocaine in a Munich museum's Egyptian mummies : substances that weren't available until the discovery of the Americas thousands of years later. In the 21st dynasty of the Pharaos, 3,000yrs ago, the funeral of Henut Taui, her burial was a modest affair. She too was mummified, and her body placed in the depths of a desert tomb, in the belief it would give her immortality. until in the early 19th century, her tomb was plundered. The king of Bavaria bought the ornate sarcophagus with the mummy inside. He gave it to a museum in Munich, where for another century, Henut Taui lay undisturbed. Then in 1992 Dr Svetla Balabanova, made a discovery which was to baffle Egyptologists, and call into question whole areas of science and archeology to chemistry and botany. She discovered that the body of Henut Taui contained large quantities of cocaine and nicotine. The surprise was not just that the ancient Egyptians had taken drugs, but that these drugs come from tobacco and coca, plants completly unknown outside the Americas, unheard of until Sir Walter Raleigh introduced smoking from the New World, or until cocaine was imported in the Victorian era. It was seemingly impossible for the ancient Egyptians to get hold of these substances.

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