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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (35446)4/19/1999 11:06:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>Lather, in order to refute the cocaine in the mummies theory of them getting it from South America, you would
have to also explain away the Bay of Jars there, which I think would be difficult.<

That burden does not fall on me. If the By of Jars is authentic, it suggests it's remotely possible that trade existed between Egypt and the Andean region. But it does not prove it. Bigger reach, it does not prove the mummies and theur daddies possessed cocaine.
I'll grant you this - if the Egyptian ruler class knew about cocaine, they'd divert a lot of State funds to surreptitiously (or quite openly) import the good stuff. How to fund that, I wonder. A pyramid scheme?
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