Research led by anthropology and Egyptology student Liam McEvoy at the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed a new hypothesis about the use of the blue lotus in ancient Egypt.

F ew plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

The petals of the blue lotus, which open at dawn and close at dusk, were believed to reflect the journey of the soul. Al Jazeera Arabic noted that the Egyptian blue lotus was associated with the ...