Traces of psychotropic plant matter, human bodily fluids, honey, wheat, yeast, and licorice were detected in a vessel ...

An analysis of ancient residues left on a vase depicting the Egyptian deity Bes reveals it may have been used to reenact a myth.

Getty Images A carving of Bes at the Temple of Dendera, Egypt. Bes was an ancient Egyptian deity worshipped as a protector of households and mothers and children. Thin layers of the concoction ...

Now we have proof via DNA and chemical analyses that people drank psychotropic compounds in a carefully prepared potion, to ...

Recent archaeological research unveiled that ancient Egyptians consumed a ritual drink combining fruits, nuts, psychedelics, ...

The artefact, donated to the Tampa Museum of Art in 1984, bears the image of Bes, an ancient Egyptian deity associated with ...

Bes was an Egyptian deity of music, merriment, and childbirth, sometimes known as the "giver of dreams/oracles". Scientists ...

an ancient Egyptian story, Hathor the sky goddess has a regrettable taste for humans, and her blood thirsty instincts need to be dulled. Fortunately for mankind, Bes, the deity associated with ...

Researchers have analysed chemical traces inside a 2,200-year-old ceramic drinking mug found in ancient Egypt. The palm-sized mug depicts the head of the strange deity Bes, who was believed to ...

Researchers have shockingly discovered proof that ancient Egyptians were drinking a hallucinogenic concoction with human ...

Researchers found a cocktail of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids and alcohol when analysing DNA from a mug used by ancient ...