Cocaine Mummies (S01E03)

As a significant earthquake looms over San Francisco, an unexpected phenomenon occurs: thousands of sea lions vanish from the harbor. Could they have sensed the approaching catastrophe? Additionally, a century after its unearthing, scholars are still puzzled by a cryptic medieval manuscript inscribed in an unknown code. What hidden truths lie within its pages? Meanwhile, forensic scientists examining ancient mummies uncover traces of cocaine, a substance native to Peru that shouldn’t have reached Egypt until millennia later. Does this suggest that trans-Atlantic journeys occurred long before Columbus set sail?