Research led by anthropology and Egyptology student Liam McEvoy at the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed a new hypothesis about the use of the blue lotus in ancient Egypt.

There’s just one problem, according to Liam McEvoy: The blue lotus used in ancient Egypt and the water lily advertised online are completely different plants. McEvoy, a fourth-year UC Berkeley student ...

Known today as blue lotus, this aquatic beauty wasn’t just decorative — it was practically ancient Egypt’s pharmacy in a flower. Depictions of the blue lotus appear everywhere in Egyptian ...

Getty Images The Blue Water Lily, also known as the Egyptian Lotus, provided the ancient Egyptians an ingredient that caused psychoactive effects such as euphoria and relaxation. Harmaline from ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily ... to the pharaohs a place of honor among the ancient world's most esteemed. A team of ...

In the Myth of the Solar Eye, an ancient Egyptian story ... They found wild rue, Egyptian lotus, and a plant belonging to the cleome family, all substances that have either psychotropic or ...

one with a lotus-shaped handle, and the second with a unique design of Hathor, goddess of the sky, women, fertility and love in ancient Egypt. The South Asasif Conservation Project, which led the ...

There's just one problem, according to Liam McEvoy: The blue lotus used in ancient Egypt and the water lily advertised online ...