Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

Instead, it needed something else to unlock its nuciferine: a substance akin to olive oil, with fats that allowed the slightly fat-soluble alkaloid to fully dissolve in wine. “We’re beginning to think ...

Explore the ancient Egyptian diet and disease nexus ... As grapes were not native to Egypt, wine had to be imported from the ...