Post by N on May 6, 2010 21:50:38 GMT -5
By RAND & ROSE FLEM-ATH
In the movie, Contact, Jodie Foster plays an astronomer who establishes communication with a civilisation beyond our solar system. In a recent television program, The Curse of the Cocaine Mummies, a different, but equally fascinating, contact is established between ancient Egypt and ancient Peru. A German forensic scientist busted the Egyptian mummy Ramses II for possession of cocaine. Cocaine, as most people know, grows only in the Andes. How did Ramses II get his dope?
www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Curse%20of%20the%20Cocaine%20Mummies.html