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Littlestone Mar 3, 2005 22:55:28

Replying to Steve Gray

Yes, I agree (the evidence for a Neolithic connection between Egypt and Britain). However the evidence for many things is flimsy, and that's often what makes it interesting (and entertaining). I've a paper in front of me entitled 'Smoking Mummies' by Mike Haigh in which he discusses the presence of tobacco in the abdominal cavity of the mummified remains of Rameses II - now there's a brain tickler that's hard to resist :-)

FourWinds Mar 4, 2005 08:17:41

Replying to Littlestone

The Egyptians also used cocaine in the mummification process. Either they had contact with South America or they mummified so many people that they used up every tobacco & coca plant in the Middle East.

The land masses between Britain and somewhere like Egypt were populated and (axe) trade over a few hundred miles in the Neolithic is quite well documented. The Britons may not have had direct, face to face contact with the likes of the Egyptians, but indirect trade is a probability.