Posted on 08/09/2017 5:45:02 AM PDT by gaggs
Christopher Columbus was not the first foreigner to discover the Americas, according to new evidence that suggests ancient Egyptians visited the Americas as early as 1,000 BC and traded with locals for tobacco and cocaine.
German scientist Dr Svetla Balabanova was studying the mummified remains of Lady Henut Taui, a member of the ancient Egyptian ruling class, when she made a surprising discovery – the mummy contained traces of nicotine and cocaine.
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Who does Svetla Balabanova think she is, Indiana Jones? Sorry Sweety, but you are full of baloney.
Ping for later.
So Bubba Hotep was a cokehead?
No, you can post it right here.
Her name suggests a Russian plant...#Fakenews alert /sarc
It could also prove that people have been smoking and doing lines around the mummy...
You realize this is from 1992 and discussed on FR several times over the years?
makes sense to me. the locals traded cocaine and tobacco for some pyramid building know how.
Couldn’t the archaeologists who dug up the mummy have doing a little demon weed and coke? Contamination, not usage.
But really: Who HASN'T done this?
similarly I’ve read recently that the chinese have evidence that their civilization has its roots in ancient egypt from about the same time as the cocaine and tobacco trade
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/02/did-chinese-civilization-come-from-ancient-egypt-archeological-debate-at-heart-of-china-national-identity/
http://www.realclearlife.com/history/new-study-points-to-possible-ancient-egyptian-origins-in-chinese-civilization/
Funky Tut!
Unwarranted conclusion. Wild speculation. Not science.
“which were only found in the Americas at the time, were not exported overseas until the Victorian era in the 19th century. Could it be that the ancient Egyptians had made it all the way to America 3,000 years ago?”
I believe this is in part merely modern arrogance; arrogance in modern studies that pretend we know everything about global trade a long time ago.
It is entirely feasible that the nicotine and coca did not get picked up by Egyptians who traveled to the Americas, but by folks in the Americas who traded with others, who traded with others, who traded with others who traded with the Egyptians. The most likely route would have been from South America to the South Pacific islands, to Southeast Asia, to India, to Persia, to Mesopotamia, to Arabia to Egypt. The Egyptians likely had no direct intercourse with the Americas. Their ships were sea worthy, as much as needed in their own region, but not for transatlantic or transpacific crossings.
I’ve always found it conceivable that there was some limited contact between the various ancient empires (think Egypt, China, maybe Greece and Rome) and the “New World”. There have been Chinese maps found that show a large land mass on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. I also don’t think this lessens Columbus “discovery” any because it began the actual exploration and colonization era. During the ancient era the voyage was so perilous, any contact was limited to brief exploration or very limited trade. The idea of colonization or military expansion was not even considered.
Maybe it was the other way around - the South Americans travelled to North Africa. To assume otherwise is, um, probably racist.
What did they find? Viagra?
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