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Cocaine mummies and Egyptians in America?
Posted on 10/5/20 at 11:59 am
Posted on 10/5/20 at 11:59 am
This article details recent studies of Egyptian mummies revealing traces of tobacco, cocoa, and cocaine in their bodily tissues. Earlier findings of tobacco in the remains of Ramses the Great were dismissed as likely being contaminants from archaeologists performing the excavations. However, more recent examinations took tissue samples from deeper inside the mummy and found more traces of tobacco and cocaine, both substances native to the Americas.
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Evidence of these substances in Egyptian mummies indicates trans-Atlantic travel thousands of years before the European Age of Exploration. If ancient Egyptians reached the Americas in the second millennium B.C., where else may they have gone? Australian Aborigines maintain an oral tradition stating that Egyptians visited Australia in ancient times, and boomerangs have been seen depicted in ancient Egyptian art, but mainstream archaeologists have always denounced the possibility of such extensive seafaring in that time period. Don’t forget that in the 19th century, it was widely believed that Egyptians had reached the Mississippi Delta in ancient times and left behind artifacts. That belief is the reason for so many cities along the Mississippi River having names influenced by Ancient Egypt like Memphis, TN; Cairo, IL; Thebes, IL; etc.
Definitely interesting stuff that could truly rewrite history books and fundamentally change our understandings of ancient seafaring, the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean, and Pre-Columbian America.
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Evidence of these substances in Egyptian mummies indicates trans-Atlantic travel thousands of years before the European Age of Exploration. If ancient Egyptians reached the Americas in the second millennium B.C., where else may they have gone? Australian Aborigines maintain an oral tradition stating that Egyptians visited Australia in ancient times, and boomerangs have been seen depicted in ancient Egyptian art, but mainstream archaeologists have always denounced the possibility of such extensive seafaring in that time period. Don’t forget that in the 19th century, it was widely believed that Egyptians had reached the Mississippi Delta in ancient times and left behind artifacts. That belief is the reason for so many cities along the Mississippi River having names influenced by Ancient Egypt like Memphis, TN; Cairo, IL; Thebes, IL; etc.
Definitely interesting stuff that could truly rewrite history books and fundamentally change our understandings of ancient seafaring, the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean, and Pre-Columbian America.
This post was edited on 10/5/20 at 12:03 pm
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Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:01 pm to kingbob
Sounds like a Phish song
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:02 pm to kingbob
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:03 pm to kingbob
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Australian Aborigines maintain an oral tradition stating that Egyptians visited Australia in ancient times
cite?
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:03 pm to kingbob
they wuz kangs?
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:04 pm to kingbob
I’ll have to look up the author, but there is a guy who theorized that around the time of Atlantis that there was a thriving trans-oceanic trade between civilizations.
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:04 pm to Mo Jeaux
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:07 pm to kingbob
Its been proven that ancient people could have sailed across the ocean and some people have theorized that Egyptians could have sailed to South America. The ancient Egyptian climate was different than it is today so its possible they could have grown tobacco there.
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:07 pm to kingbob
So Pharoah was just on cocaine the whole time?
If Moses had just came with a kilo maybe they could've avoided all those plagues
This post was edited on 10/5/20 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:10 pm to kingbob
And don’t forget they hid their gold in the Grand Canyon.
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:11 pm to kingbob
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That doesn't support your statement.
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:11 pm to kingbob
They knew about Iron Maiden too.
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Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:40 pm to Bullfrog
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And don’t forget they hid their gold in the Grand Canyon.
I think they actually hid it at Money Hill in St. Tammany Parish.
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:43 pm to kingbob
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That belief is the reason for so many cities along the Mississippi River having names influenced by Ancient Egypt like Memphis, TN; Cairo, IL; Thebes, IL; etc
Would it be so amazing?
The Natchez Indians were established along the river for hundreds of years an are well documented as having a complex religious culture there much different from a lot of Indian tribes. They even built mounds as religious temples and for their kings to live on. Is it so crazy to suggest that these people could have traded with or even been settlers of some kind?
This post was edited on 10/5/20 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:45 pm to kingbob
That website is full of shite.
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:47 pm to Warfox
Is it Graham Hancock?
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:57 pm to kingbob
Goes great with the funk too! Mummies jammed!
Posted on 10/5/20 at 12:57 pm to kingbob
Memphis does have that pyramid.
Posted on 10/5/20 at 1:00 pm to kingbob
quote:The Europeans settlers named them that when they founded their settlements in these locations. They wanted to name major locations on the Mississippi after major locations on the Nile. They did not believe the Egyptians had traveled to the Americas or up the Mississippi. To suggest ancient Africans were superior to ancient Europeans would have gotten you killed back then.
Don’t forget that in the 19th century, it was widely believed that Egyptians had reached the Mississippi Delta in ancient times and left behind artifacts. That belief is the reason for so many cities along the Mississippi River having names influenced by Ancient Egypt like Memphis, TN; Cairo, IL; Thebes, IL; etc.
Author of OP's link:
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J.P. Robinson was born in Beverley on the East Yorkshire coast of England in 1975. He first became fascinated by the possibility of UFOs and extraterrestrial beings in his late teens during the early 90's; the last decade before the explosion of the internet, influenced at that time by the extraordinary claims of ex-NASA employee and whistle-blower Robert Oechsler.
His research then led him to consider the unexplained mysteries of ancient history and the great civilizations of the past. Inspired by the research of such luminaries as Graham Hancock and John Anthony West, his interest in mankind’s forgotten history soon took hold.
He began honing his writing skills as a keen singer-songwriter for the best part of two decades and following five years of study in Contemporary Photography right through to degree level at Northumbria University, he developed his ability to research extensively and applied this to his dissertation where he received a first with honours. Back in 1998, his work was recommended for a commissioned piece in The Guardian.
During a period as a self-employed freelance photographer he decided it was time to accumulate all of his knowledge and in 2016 he published his first nonfiction book The Alien Enigma followed by The Myth of Man two years later.
He currently lives in Kingston upon Hull with his partner and two daughters, where he is working on his third book which looks at life after death and what lies beyond the physical world.
This post was edited on 10/5/20 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 10/5/20 at 1:01 pm to upgrayedd
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Sounds like a Phish song
Widespread Panic opens the show too when they debut it live
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