Dentistry & Lethal Diseases in Ancient Egypt

ISBN-13: 9783659719400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 124 str.

Venice Ibrahim Attia

Opis

Egypt and its people has had a glorious past, its people descend from a civilization that was once the most intellectually and technologically advanced in the world. Ancient Egyptians pioneered in various fields of knowledge, one of these is medicine where they excelled leaving the rest of the world behind. Medicine was a field of excellence, and they made the basic contributions of our modern medical knowledge. A lot of their medical secrets have been revealed through the discovery of medical papyruses, studying their mummies and mummification process as well as depictions on the walls of their temples.

O autorze

The author got a Bachelor Degree in Science Major Chemistry/Microbiology, Ain-Shams University.October 2011- present, senior conservator/ conservation scientist, Conservation department, Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt.September 2009- September 2011, Head of Mummies & Human Remains Lab, Conservation Center, Grand Egyptian Museum project, Giza, Egypt