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To: Brumar89 who wrote (71716)	1/9/2000 12:55:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You seem to miss quite a lot, Brumar. I am beginning to wonder if you simply have an entrenched belief system and are unable to process any evidence outside of it. I do not know how you could have missed this part of the transcript, because it was in my very last post to you. So even if you assume that EVERY Egyptian mummy was fake (and the odds of that are not great), you still have the evidence that Balabanova obtained from other ancient remains scanning a wide time period, but ending before Columbus "discovered" America in 1492: NARRATOR: And if that wasn't enough, it turned out that the results from the Munich mummies were not the only evidence from the dead. The anthropologists who originally ordered the tests didn't continue the project. But Balabanova, alongside her normal research into the metabolism of drugs started requesting samples of other ancient human remains from universities. And it was then that she got more results from Egypt. She tested tissue from 134 naturally preserved bodies from an excavated cemetery in the Sudan, once part of the Egyptian empire. Although from a later period, the bodies were still many centuries before Columbus discovered the Americas. About a third of them tested positive for nicotine and cocaine. Balabanova was mystified by the presence of cocaine in Africa but thought she might have a way of explaining the nicotine. As well as Egypt and the Sudan, she tested bodies from China, Germany and Austria, spanning a period from 3700BC to 1100AD. A percentage of bodies from all these other regions also contained nicotine. [Graph showing presence of nicotine: Percentage of bodies with positive result - Egypt:89% Sudan:90% China:62.5% Germany:34% Austria 100%] >> As to your second argument, about crops, I do not believe that anyone asserts that there was widespread and universal intercontinental trade in ancient times, just that there is substantial evidence of some contact. Did you read Cobalt Blue's Atlantic article about this subject? You might find it interesting. In any event, all crops do not flourish in all places. If they did, there would be utterly no need for international trade at all during any time period. Your argument reminds me of a quote from archaeologist David Kelley in the Atlantic article: <<Kelley's role in the Mayan-decipherment controversy of the 1970s has steeled him against the predictable rebukes of mainstream colleagues for his Peterborough hypothesis. "When it is clear that a 'fantastic' interpretation has many reasonable components if the data are valid," he has observed, "most professional archaeologists regard that as .... adequate reason to assume that the data are invalid." >>