Traces of cocaine discovered in mummified brain tissue reveal that Europeans were chewing coca leaves — possibly for medical or recreational purposes — in the 17th century, two centuries before the earliest known documented use of the New World plant in the Old World, a new study finds. #history #drugs #mummies https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/cocaine-found-in-mummified-brains-reveal-that-new-world-drug-came-to-italy-200-years-earlier-than-thought