Snake identification in the ancient Egyptian Brooklyn Medical Papyrus: a new study of the twenty-four extant registers of the "Snakebite Papyrus"

"This book offers a new examination of the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, better-known as the Snakebite Papyrus, a pragmatic medical treatise from ancient Egypt concerned with snake identification, snakebite, and treatment. Dating to sometime in the seventh through fourth centuries BCE, the document...

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Hauptverfasser: Sanchez, Gonzalo M. (VerfasserIn), Meltzer, Edmund S. 1951- (VerfasserIn), Wüster, Wolfgang (VerfasserIn), Casewell, Nicholas R. (VerfasserIn), Schuett, Gordon W. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Ancient Egyptian
Veröffentlicht: Columbus, Georgia Lockwood Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:"This book offers a new examination of the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, better-known as the Snakebite Papyrus, a pragmatic medical treatise from ancient Egypt concerned with snake identification, snakebite, and treatment. Dating to sometime in the seventh through fourth centuries BCE, the document is the first-known structured treatise on snakebites from antiquity. The papyrus was first translated into French by Serge Sauneron and published posthumously in 1989. Major advances in fields such as biogeography, climate and niche modeling, and linguistics in the past thirty years have brought new perspectives. The authors provide a review of Sauneron's and more recent studies and bring their own investigations, results, and comparisons to further clarify this historical document"
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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Beschreibung:188 Seiten
ISBN:9781957454030