Rameses II and the tobacco beetle

• Autores: Paul C. Buckland, Eva Panagiotakopulu
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 75, Nº 289, 2001, págs. 549-556
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The use of a wide range of narcotic drugs in antiquity has been widely documented, although archaeologists have sometimes been too credulous of apparently scientific data, and have failed to appreciate the post-excavation histories of artefacts, including mummies. This paper examines the discovery of tobacco in the mummy of Rameses II, provides an alternative model for its origin, as a 19th-century insecticide used in conservation, and throws doubt upon the evidence for both cannabis and cocaine in ancient Egypt.