[SunkenCiv]

(a) Drinking vessel in shape of Bes head; El-Fayūm Oasis, Egypt; Ptolemaic-Roman period (4th century BCE—3rd century CE), (courtesy of the Tampa Museum of Art, Florida). (b) Bes mug from the Ghalioungui collection, 10.7 × 7.9 cm (Ghalioungui, G. Wagner 1974, Kaiser 2003, cat. no. 342). (c) Bes mug inv. no. 14.415 from the Allard Pierson Museum, 11.5 × 9.3 cm (courtesy of the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam; photo by Stephan van der Linden). (d) Bes mug from El-Fayum, dimensions unknown (Kaufmann 1913; Kaiser 2003, cat. no. 343).

Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-78721-8

[Carry_Okie]

...including the plants used by Egyptians, all of which have psychotropic and medicinal properties.

What species of plants these were the article doesn't say.

[Freeleesy]

Maybe when they enslaved the Jews too (Exodus 1).

[ifinnegan]

These articles are frustrating because I want to know how the analytical chemistry was done, which chemicals were found etc…

Also, when they say bodily fluids, I don’t think they had to out a coloring in to make it look like blood. It probably was.

[Texas Eagle]

You mean, like, in order to cope with Pharoah Trumpenkhamen winning the election?

[BenLurkin]

That is one ugly mug.

[Adder]

“Dat chit git you high, man”

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[NotQuiteCricket]

Looks Greek to me. It would make sense that they kept a version of the Elysian mystery.