In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...

“We can see that ancient Egyptian medicine was not solely based on herbal remedies like medicine in other ancient ...

Items not to scale. Photographed at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Santa Monica, California and National Wildlife Property Repository, Commerce City, Colorado. This 1620 ...

"This finding is unique evidence of how ancient Egyptian medicine would have tried to deal with or explore cancer more than 4,000 years ago. This is an extraordinary new perspective in our ...