The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
“The cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man”. Blue-eyed? How would they know? I have heard that cannabis can cure glaucoma; does it also conserve your eyes –and their color– for 2,700 years?
I don’t know how well eye colour conserves. Anyways, this guy’s eye colour seems quite important for political reasons!
Blue, not red?
Just talked with Dorian. He says that all Egyptian mummies have red hair…