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Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...

Ancient Egyptian medical papyri from as early as 1550 BCE document the use of donkey milk for treating numerous ailments, including fever, liver problems, and poisoning. Greek physician Hippocrates ...

Long before horses galloped into human history and millennia before dogs became man's best friend, donkeys were quietly revolutionizing human civilization. These remarkable animals, often overlooked ...

The forgotten wisdom in ancient papyri. When archaeologists began translating medical papyri like the Ebers Papyrus from around 1550 BCE, they discovered detailed records of blue lotus ...

The Egyptian almond obsession modern dermatologists would approve. Ancient Egyptians, famous for their elaborate beauty rituals, placed particular emphasis on almonds for maintaining youthful skin.

In the late 19th century, archaeologists excavated half a million papyri fragments, most of which were written in Greek, at the ancient Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus in southern Egypt, dating to ...

An ancient medical recipe illustrates the global trade networks and integrative dynamics of the Roman empire Wissenschaft Wissens-Blogs Papyrologieblog Papyrology Blog ...

Both Egyptian medical papyri and Hippocrates, lauded as the father of medicine, suggested that a person who suspected they might be pregnant insert an onion or other strong-smelling bulbous ...