
Archaeologists Find Traces of Tobacco, Mexican Marigold in Ancient Maya Flasks | Archaeology – Sci-News.com
January 18, 2021A team of archaeologists from the United States and Mexico have detected mixtures of tobacco and a non-tobacco plant called the Mexican marigold (Tagetes lucida) in residues taken from a collection of 14 pre-Columbian Maya bottle-shaped containers known as flasks. The discovery paints a clearer picture of ancient Maya drug […]