Now we have proof that people drank psychotropic compounds in a carefully prepared concoction, to connect with the deity called Bes.

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also revealed funerary and meteorological artefacts hidden under the outer wall of the Tapuziris Magna temple in the region of western Alexandria.

Archaeologists were left stunned after they found a white marble statue which could well be a depiction of Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The excavation was carried out in the historic city of Alexandria,