Queen Hatshepsut lived around 1450 B.C. A tiny flask owned by the queen, which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn. may have held a deadly secret for 3,500 years, according to Head of the collection Michael Höveler-Müller and Dr. Helmut Wiedenfeld from the university's Pharmacology Institute.
After two years of research it is now clear that the flacon did not hold a perfume but was a kind of skin care lotion or even medication for a monarch suffering from eczema.
The pharmacologists found a strongly carcinogenic substance. Queen Hatshepsut may have been killed by her medicine.
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