Egyptian Pharaohs Smoking the Columbian Marijuana and Tobacco - More, University Lies Debunked

Egyptian Pharaohs Smoking the Columbian 

Marijuana and Tobacco - More, University Lies Debunked

   The use of a wide range of narcotic drugs in antiquity has been widely documented, although archaeologists have sometimes been too credulous of apparently scientific data, and have failed to appreciate the post-excavation histories of artifacts, including mummies. This paper examines the discovery of tobacco in the mummy of Rameses II, provides an alternative model for its origin, as a 19th-century insecticide used in conservation, and throws doubt upon the evidence for both cannabis and cocaine in ancient Egypt.

Rameses II and the tobacco beetle

P. C. Buckland and E. Panagiotakopulu (2001).
Antiquity, Volume 75, Issue289, September 2001, pp 549-556
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=9434988

3000-year-old mummified remains from ancient Egypt contain strong traces of Nicotine and Cocaine 2500 years before Christoper Columbus opened up Europe to the plants and animals of the Americas.  Nicotine has also been found in Austria and Chinese mummies some dating back to 3,700 B.C.

Snopes Uses This Fake Photo To Debunk the Giants

Snopes Uses This Fake Photo To Debunk the Giants

Everyone knows this is a bogus photo that originated as part of a Photoshop contest. Snopes is using this picture as evidence that the ancient giant theories and evidence are a hoax.

DNA Results Are In: Florida's Ancient Bog People Were European

DNA Results Are In: Florida's Ancient Bog People Were European

The Windover Archaeological Site is an Maritime Archaic ( 5000 BC) archaeological site discovered near Titusville, Florida, USA, on the central east coast of the state. Windover is a muck pond where skeletal remains of of over 100  were discovered.. DNA from the brain tissue has been sequenced. Windover Pond represents the largest finds from the Archaic Period.
 
The DNA evidence has proven that the first peoples to inhabit the Americas were the Europeans.