Scientists shed light on the dark secret of Queen Hatshepsut's deadly medication

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Scientists shed light on the dark secret of Queen Hatshepsut's deadly medication

The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn. For three and a half millennia, the vessel may have held a deadly secret. This is what the Head of the collection, Michael H-veler-M-ller and Dr. Helmut Wiedenfeld from the university's Pharmacology Institute just discovered.

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