The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt

The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt

by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, James P. Allen

115 pages· 2005· ISBN 9781588391704
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Diseases and injuries were major concerns for ancient Egyptians. This book, featuring some sixty-four objects from the Metropolitan Museum, discusses how both practical and magical medicine informed Egyptian art and for the first time reproduces and translates treatments described in the spectacular Edwin Smith Papyrus.

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