Momies égyptiennes, la grande imposture ?

In 1992, examinations of mummies dating back to around 1000 BCE revealed the unexpected presence of cocaine and tobacco, substances thought to be endemic to the New World. But America wasn’t officially reached until 2,500 years later by Christopher Columbus in 1492! Faced with these troubling results, the examinations were repeated on the mummy and others by different teams of researchers, and strict sanitary measures were implemented to rule out any contamination. But the same traces were still detected. How can this phenomenon, and the conflicting dates, be explained? A fascinating scientific investigation takes us from Egypt to the United States, via Switzerland, Germany, Paris, and London, to the discovery of some particularly unsettling hypotheses…