Will mummy make it better? The curious case of mummified remedies in early modern medicine
The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...
How Ancient Egyptians used the blue lotus in the ‘Journey of the Soul’
The significance of the blue lotus was confirmed in 1922 when Howard Carter found blue lotus petals covering the body of ...
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Archaeologists Baffled to Find Several Clay Fingers Offered as Anatomical Votive Offerings to the 'Healing Serpent'
Archaeologists Baffled to Find Several Clay Fingers Offered as Anatomical Votive Offerings to the 'Healing Serpent' For ...
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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
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The Tomb of a Military Commander from the Reign of Ramesses III Discovered in Egypt
The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has made a significant discovery in the Tel Rud ...
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Ancient military commander’s tomb unearthed in Egypt’s Ismailia
The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities unveiled a ground-breaking discovery in Tell ...