Cannabis
Mummies and ‘impossible’ drugs. A new look to the Svetlana Balabanova’s ethnobotanical revisionism
By: GIORGIO SAMORINI – In the 1990s, the Bulgarian chemist Svetlana Balabanova undertook a series of chemical analyses aimed at searching for drugs in almost a thousand human remains from the archaeological sites of four continents. Most of these analyses resulted in findings that were ‘impossible’ from the point of view of the accepted history…