Deadly ancient Egyptian medication? German scientists shed light on dark secret of Queen Hatshepsut's flacon
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 19:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn in Germany. For three and a half millennia, the vessel may have held a deadly secret. This is what researchers there have just discovered.