[SunkenCiv]

Cocaine, tobacco, and the ancient Egyptians also enjoyed the lotus flower, apparently a little too much.

• Voyage To Prove Pharaohs Traded Cocaine [05/29/2007]
• American Drugs In Egyptian Mummies [11/11/2006]
• Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies [03/25/2005]

[Savage Beast]

Thanks for the links!

"Basing his theory on the thinnest of historical evidence, Dominique Gorlitz believes that the discovery of traces of tobacco and cocaine in the tomb of the pharaoh Rameses II"

Traces of tobacco and cocaine in ancient Egyptian tombs constitute rather good evidence, certainly not the thinnest.