If the coca plant and tobacco were present in Eurasia in the pre-Columbian era, it is likely that they would have continued existing there until modern times. That very same thing happened with pre-Columbian sweet potatoes in South East Asia.
Unless plant DNA is recovered from the inner organs of mummies, It seems more likely that the Egyptians used wild Old-World plants containing the same alkaloids. Nicotine is pretty common and present in eggplants and wild nightshades.
GM: Lucio Russo, italian polymath capable of reading greek AND Fermat theorized that Punics and Greeks abitually crossed the Atlantic (e.g. in America dimenticata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Russo#L'America_dimenticataISBN 978-88-6184-320-2 he shows Ptolemy identifies the Fortune Island as Canary but gives the coordinates of Leeward). I thnik its main point, that Ellenistic culture creates the First Scientific Revolution and Rome destroyed it (Il tracollo culturale.https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Russo#Il_tracollo_culturale._La_conquista_romana_del_Mediterraneo_(146-145_a.C.) ISBN 9788829012220) should be better studied in our circles - but sadly translating its book in english is not mainstream nor remunerative.
If the coca plant and tobacco were present in Eurasia in the pre-Columbian era, it is likely that they would have continued existing there until modern times. That very same thing happened with pre-Columbian sweet potatoes in South East Asia.
Unless plant DNA is recovered from the inner organs of mummies, It seems more likely that the Egyptians used wild Old-World plants containing the same alkaloids. Nicotine is pretty common and present in eggplants and wild nightshades.
GM: Lucio Russo, italian polymath capable of reading greek AND Fermat theorized that Punics and Greeks abitually crossed the Atlantic (e.g. in America dimenticata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Russo#L'America_dimenticataISBN 978-88-6184-320-2 he shows Ptolemy identifies the Fortune Island as Canary but gives the coordinates of Leeward). I thnik its main point, that Ellenistic culture creates the First Scientific Revolution and Rome destroyed it (Il tracollo culturale.https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Russo#Il_tracollo_culturale._La_conquista_romana_del_Mediterraneo_(146-145_a.C.) ISBN 9788829012220) should be better studied in our circles - but sadly translating its book in english is not mainstream nor remunerative.
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