Mais uma história do incrivel! Mumia apanhada com Cocaina? Viagens entre Continentes mais antigas que os Descobrimentos?

Históricamente, os primeiros homens do velho mundo (Europa, Asia e Africa) a chegar ao novo mundo (America) foram os homens do tempo dos Descobrimentos (Apesar de os Vikings tambem terem chegado mas por obra do acaso) . No entanto, e não estando aqui a tirar mérito aos grandes Portugueses, uma nova descoberta incrivel faz repensar essa ideia e faz colocar essas datas de caminhos maritimos entre continentes muito mais antigas!
Mas começemos pelo Egipto e pelo Sul e Centro da America. Que tem de comum? Piramides e Mumias.Como é possivel? será obra do acaso? é o que o nos ensinam na escola. será que existiu uma terra que ficaria entre a America e Africa (na europa chamamos lhe Atlantis, no antigo mexico Aztlan), que entretanto foi destruida por terramotos e um super vulcão e estas civilizações são as ultimas provas disso? Ou por ultimo, será que os Egipcios conseguiram chegar a america via marítima e impuseram seus costumes ao povo que la residia?
Alguns Professores acreditam fielmente na primeira hipotese, considerando as outras duas absurdas!
Mas como a história nos ensinou (caso do telescopio de Galileu), as vezes nem com provas concretas conseguimos mudar a opinião dos cientistas com suas ideias preconcebidas.
No entanto,algo de estraordinario foi encontrado:plantas de drogas... e para complicar as coisas, plantas de drogas que só crescem na America do Sul.
Como e isto possivel? Deixo vos aqui para quem quiser lêr, um artigo na qual recortei e enquadrei da melhor forma possivel para melhor leitura e compreensão:

16/9/1976

"when the mummified remains of Ramses II arrived at the Museum of Mankind in Paris. To repair the damage to the mummy, a scientific team was assembled which included Dr. Michelle Lescot of the Natural History Museum (Paris). She received fragments from the bandages and found a plant fragment ensnared within the fibres. When she looked at it under a microscope she was amazed to discover that the plant was tobacco. Fearing that she had made some mistake she repeated her tests again and again with the same result every time: a New World plant had been found on an Old World mummy. The results, little known in North America, caused a sensation in Europe."

Rapidamente, esta teoria foi rejeitada e foi colocado duvidas

"Professor Nasri Isk-ander, the Chief Curator at the Cairo Museum thought he had an explanation. As an avid pipe smoker he argued that "maybe a piece of tobacco dropped by haphazard" from the pipe of some forgotten archaeologist. Dr. Lescot responded to this charge of "contamination" by carefully extracting new samples from Ramses II’s abdomen, all the while having others photograph the process. These samples which could not possibly be "droppings" were then tested and once again were established to be tobacco."

Posto isto, esta teoria foi colocada de parte... isto até 16 anos depois

"Then, sixteen years later, again quite by accident, more evidence emerged. In 1992, toxicologist, Dr. Svetla Balabanova of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Ulm (Germany) tested the ancient Egyptian mummified remains of Henut-Tawy, Lady of the Two Lands. The results came as a "shock" to this scientist who regularly used the identical testing methods to convict people of drug consumption. She had not expected to find nicotine and cocaine in an ancient Egyptian mummy. She repeated the tests and sent out fresh samples to three other labs. When the results came back positive she published a paper with two other scientists. (Balabanova, S., F. Parsche and W. Pirsig, "First Identification of Drugs in Egyptian Mummies", Naturwissenschaften 79, 358 (1992) Springer-Verlag 1992.)"

Que,obviamente, foi rejeitado e criticado 

"If Balabanova was surprised by the results of her tests she was even more surprised at the vitriolic response to her publication. She received a flood of letters threatening, insulting and accusing her of fraud. When she reminded her critics that she was simply applying the very same techniques that she had used for years in police work where her results were considered "proof positive" her critics didn’t seem to care. She was condemned as a "fraud."

Com isto, uma Investigação seria foi necessaria

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Dr. Rosalie David, Keeper of Egyptology, Manchester Museum took up the challenge of investigating the "cocaine mummies" which she thought "seemed quite impossible." She began by sending tissue and hair samples from her museum out to labs. She was working on the dual assumption that one of two things are true: 1. Balabanova’s tests were compromised; or 2. The mummy was not truly ancient" (i.e. it was fake). Dr. David flew to Munich to review the techniques and excavation records to see if the body, which had originally been purchased by King Ludwig I of Bavaria was genuine or not.

Dr. Alfred Grimm, the Curator of The Egyptian Museum in Munich said that "the Munich mummies are real Egyptian mummies. No fakes. No modern mummies. They came from ancient Egypt." After spending days pouring over the docum-entation associated with the "cocaine mummy" Dr. David relented saying: "it seems evident that they are probably genuine…"

Mas será que só com uma prova se pode criar uma teoria? nada melhor que continuar a investigar

"Dr. Balabanova’s work had been validated by the test results from Manchester but she was now hooked on the problem and began collecting samples of naturally preserved bodies housed in museums all around Europe. She obtained 134 separate bodies taken from ancient Sudan dating to a time long before Columbus or the Vikings. One third of these bodies contained both nicotine and cocaine."

Por fim, concluisse que apesar de não ter explicado o como e quando, sabemos que o facto de os egipcios terem estado na America é verdadeiro, e que a história terá de ser reescrita.