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  • Rameses II and the tobacco beetle

  • P. C. Buckland, E. Panagiotakopulu
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 75 / Issue 289 / September 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 549-556
    Print publication:
    September 2001

  • 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.