{"id":152184,"date":"2022-12-08T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/cocaine-mummies-serve-as-evidence-that-ancient-egyptians-may-have-arrived-in-america-long-before-columbus"},"modified":"2022-12-08T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:23:31","slug":"cocaine-mummies-serve-as-evidence-that-ancient-egyptians-may-have-arrived-in-america-long-before-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/cocaine-mummies-serve-as-evidence-that-ancient-egyptians-may-have-arrived-in-america-long-before-columbus","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCocaine Mummies\u201d serve as evidence that ancient Egyptians may have arrived in America long before Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cocaine-mummies-serve-as-evidence-that-ancient-egyptians-may-have-arrived-in-america-long-before-columbus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1992, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.ucr.edu\/~legneref\/ethnic\/mummy.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scientists found drugs<\/a> such as cocaine, hashish, and nicotine in some Egyptian mummies. These mummies came to be known as the \u201ccocaine mummies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traces of the drugs were found in the hair and skin of the mummies. Initially, scientists thought that this was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.ucr.edu\/~legneref\/ethnic\/mummy.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a result of contamination<\/a> and that perhaps improper techniques had been used to analyze the mummy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1992, scientists found drugs such as cocaine, hashish, and nicotine in some Egyptian mummies. These mummies came to be known as the \u201ccocaine mummies.\u201d Traces of the drugs were found in the hair and skin of the mummies. Initially, scientists thought that this was a result of contamination and that perhaps improper techniques had [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}