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

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

Blue lotus flower, or Nymphea caerulea, is an Egyptian water lily. Sometimes called blue Egyptian lotus, historians speculate ...

Egyptian blue lotus flowers have mesmerised Dior Maison, with its new Lotus homeware collection arriving in boutiques this month. The ancients revered the blue lotus, and saw it as an omen that order ...

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.