Queen Hatshepsut May Have Been Killed By Her Medicine
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
Pharaoh Hatshepsut lived around 1450 B.C. A tiny flash owned by the queen, a flacon, which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn may have held a deadly secret for 3,500 years, according to Head of the collection Michael Höveler-Müller and Dr. Helmut Wiedenfeld from the university’s Pharmacology Institute. After two years of research it is now clear that the flacon did not hold a perfume but was a kind of skin care lotion or even medication for a monarch suffering from eczema. The pharmacologists found a strongly carcinogenic substance. Queen Hatshepsut may have been killed by her medicine.read more
