Herbal medicines from ancient Egypt analysed at Fytagoras
A collaboration between Brown University’s Department of Egyptology and Assyriology (USA), the Institute of the History of Pharmacy and Medicine (Germany), Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Netherlands), and Fytagoras explored chemical profiling to support philological analysis of ancient Egyptian herbal medicine. Focusing on the Ebers Papyrus (c. 1530 BCE), we examined therapeutic “recipes” to understand processing practices […]