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Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies (1996)

ALL 09/08/1996 (en) Documentary 50 Min
  • Release
    09/08/1996
  • Production
    Channel 4 Television
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  • Original title
    Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
  • Original language
    en
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Overview

The UK series Equinox brings us this investigation of a mystery that is baffling Egyptologists. The case calls into question whole areas of accepted scientific fact from botany, through chemistry to archaeology. In 1992, routine tests on a mummy in a Munich museum revealed high body levels of cocaine and nicotine. But such substances were not available in ancient Egypt, coming as they do from the Americas – not, apparently, to be “discovered” for thousands of years after the passing of the Egyptian dynasties. Are the mummies fakes; were the substances from plants that have since disappeared or were there, in fact, trade routes between Egypt and South America that predate accepted chronology?

  1. Sarah Marris

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies (1996) 50 Min

ALL 09/08/1996 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 09/08/1996
  • Production
    Channel 4 Television
  • Original title Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The UK series Equinox brings us this investigation of a mystery that is baffling Egyptologists. The case calls into question whole areas of accepted scientific fact from botany, through chemistry to archaeology. In 1992, routine tests on a mummy in a Munich museum revealed high body levels of cocaine and nicotine. But such substances were not available in ancient Egypt, coming as they do from the Americas – not, apparently, to be “discovered” for thousands of years after the passing of the Egyptian dynasties. Are the mummies fakes; were the substances from plants that have since disappeared or were there, in fact, trade routes between Egypt and South America that predate accepted chronology?

  1. Sarah Marris

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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