Online, products marketed as blue lotus claim to offer relaxation and even psychedelic experiences — but they're a far cry ...

The significance of the blue lotus was confirmed in 1922 when Howard Carter found blue lotus petals covering the body of ...

The blue lotus, a captivating water lily entwined with Egyptian mythology, has long dazzled archaeologists and historians.

As he did more research, he learned of the Egyptian blue lotus’s prominence through classes and ancient artifacts kept at Berkeley’s own Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. As he learned to read ...

Egyptologists think that these riotous rituals were fueled by wine that had been infused with psychedelic blue lotus.

The blue lotus was also very symbolic of fertility in Ancient Egypt. It’s now known that a chemical commonly used to treat male sexual dysfunction, apomorphine, is found in the flower.

But not a nuciferine-packed flower with a waxy ... add new depth to prevailing understandings about ancient Egypt and about questionable lotus-laced supplements sold online today.