Florida professor finds evidence that ancient Egyptians drank hallucinogenic cocktails

A prof astatine the University of South Florida (USF) analyzed a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mug and discovered that the past entity erstwhile held a psychedelic concoction utilized successful a magical ritual. 

The mug studied was an Egyptian Bes mug donated to the Tampa Museum of Art successful 1984. The mug is 1 of fewer inactive successful existence. 

Research into the uncommon mug began successful 2021, USF prof Davide Tanasi told Fox News Digital via email. 

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These mugs displayed the caput of Bes, according to the property release.

Many of Bes' worshipers were past Egyptian newlyweds, according to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, arsenic the deity of fertility and childbirth.

Drinking vessels shaped into the likeness of Bes, an past Egyptian deity. (Tampa Museum of Art; Allard Pierson Museum/Amsterdam/Stephan van der Linden)

Tanasi and his squad scraped a illustration of tiny particles from wrong the vase to analyze. 

The squad primitively thought the vas would person contained an alcoholic beverage, but what they ended up uncovering was acold antithetic from their archetypal theories.

Advanced DNA and chemic investigation recovered the vase contained what Tanasi described arsenic a "cocktail" of antithetic components. 

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Included successful the premix was an alcoholic base, Tanasi told Fox News Digital, with flavoring agents similar chromatic and oregon royal jelly sesame seeds, conifer nuts oregon lipid from Mediterranean conifer and licorice.

Also included successful the premix were respective antithetic medicinal and psychotropic substances, including Syrian rue, bluish h2o lily and cleome species, Tanasi said.

The analyzed mug was donated to the Tampa Museum of Art successful 1984. (Fabiola Santiago/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images/File)

Human fluids including blood, bosom beverage and mucus were besides portion of the concoction, according to Tanasi. 

The bodily fluids successful peculiar served arsenic a ample indicator that the premix was utilized successful past ritual practices, according to the research. 

"It was past a magical potion, meant to inebriate, satiate and induce hallucinations," Tanasi said of the mixture. 

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This first-of-its-kind uncovering provides carnal grounds that mirrors written records and myths astir ancient Egyptian rituals. 

"At this point, we judge that the psychotropic substances recovered successful it were utilized for ‘incubation rituals’ connected with the cult of Bes," Tanasi told Fox News Digital. 

A drinking vas is shown successful the signifier of Bes' head. (Tampa Museum of Art/Philip LaDeau)

"Incubation rituals are spiritual practices wherever radical slumber successful a ineffable abstraction to person a imagination from a deity that whitethorn supply healing oregon an oracle," Tanasi said. 

"In [the] Greek cult of Asklepios, deity of medicine, sick worshipers had to walk the nighttime successful the sanctuary and hold to beryllium visited by the deity curing them during their dreams. Those dreams were triggered by drugs (pharmaka) dispensed by the priests. So, our probe confirms an earlier signifier that has aboriginal comparisons successful respective different cultures."

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The mug is present connected show astatine the Tampa Museum of Art arsenic portion of its "Prelude: An Introduction to the Permanent Collection" exhibit.

As acold arsenic further probe goes, Tanasi said helium hopes akin investigation continues.

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"To beryllium that the concoction that we recovered was the basal look for a modular beverage administered during the rituals successful grant of Bes, we program arsenic [a] adjacent measurement to hopefully transportation retired the aforesaid analyses done connected the illustration from the Tampa Museum of Art connected different examples of [the] Bes Mug, kept astatine the Allan Pierson Museum successful Amsterdam," helium said.

These, helium added, "were produced with the aforesaid mold utilized for the Tampa one, to measure whether determination was 1 and lone look for this magical potion for Bes."