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Hidden futures : death and immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the classical, biblical and Arabic-Islamic world / edd. J.M. Bremmer, Th. P.J. van den Hout, R. Peters.
Date: [1994], ©1994- Pictures
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Ancient rock-cut watch-tower overlooking the valleys of El Ghor and Akabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: [1849]Reference: 35575iPart of: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia- Digital Images
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Ancient Egyptian Kohl pot minature pestle and mortar
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Ancient Egyptian pharmacy / Samir Yahya El-Gammal.
El-Gammal, Samir Yahia.Date: 1985- Books
Ancient Egyptian metallurgy / by H.Garland and C.O.Bannister.
Garland, H. (Herbert), -1921.Date: 1927- Books
Ancient Egyptian materials and industries / [Alfred Lucas].
Lucas, A. (Alfred), 1867-1945.Date: [1962]- Books
Ancient Egyptian medicine / by John F. Nunn.
Nunn, J. F. (John Francis)Date: [1996], ©1996- Books
Ancient Egyptian medicine and polarity therapy / Christopher Millett.
Millett, Christopher.Date: 1991- Books
Ancient Egyptian divination and magic / Eleanor L. Harris.
Harris, Eleanor L., 1970-Date: 1998- E-books
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Women's earliest records : from ancient Egypt and western Asia : proceedings of the Conference on Women in the Ancient Near East, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, November 5-7, 1987 / edited by Barbara S. Lesko.
Conference on Women in the Ancient Near East (1987 : Brown University)Date: c1989- Digital Images
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Rock tombs at Beni Hassan, Middle Egypt date from the Middle Kingdom dynasties XI (2060-1991 BCE) and XII (1991-1782 BCE) and rank among the most important monuments of Ancient Egypt. They were built for the dignitaries of Menat-Khufu, one of the oldest place names recorded in ancient Egypt. The tomb walls are decorated with mural paintings executed on rocky walls made smooth with plaster. These paintings are radidly deteriorating and most reproductions are from paintings of the originals. This painting, from the tomb of Khnumenhotep, the Mayor of Menat-Khufu, shows him using a large draw net to capture marsh fowl. The basic sources of animal protein for Ancient Egyptians were wild fowl and fish. A multitude of bird species inhabited the reed beds along the Nile, far more in dynastic times than today. They included ducks, geese, finches, egrets, storks, ibis, cranes and red-breasted goose which is no longer found in Egypt.
Carole Reeves- Digital Images
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Rock tombs at Beni Hassan, Middle Egypt date from the Middle Kingdom dynasties XI (2060-1991 BCE) and XII (1991-1782 BCE) and rank among the most important monuments of Ancient Egypt. They were built for the dignitaries of Menat-Khufu, one of the oldest place names recorded in ancient Egypt. The tomb walls are decorated with mural paintings executed on rocky walls made smooth with plaster. These paintings are radidly deteriorating and most reproductions are from paintings of the originals. A small tree full of birds is shown at the bottom left of the tomb. Egypt is on the major migratory route between Europe and Africa which accounts for a variety of birds depicted in illustrations. After slaughter, birds were plucked and either roasted to be eaten immediately, or dried, salted and pickled in large amphorae. Wildfowl such as ducks, geese and cranes were sometimes fattened for the table and occassionally force-ded with bread and sweetened mash. Ducks and geese were also kept for eggs as were pigeons and pelicans. Domestic flow (chickens) were not introduced into Egypt in any numbers until the roman period (30 BCE-CE 395).
Carole Reeves- Books
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Ancient Egyptian medicine : a bibliographical demonstration in the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 12th January, 1893 / by James Finlayson.
Finlayson, James, 1840-1906.Date: 1893- Pictures
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The Abou Simbel temple (the Sun Temple of Ramesses II), Nubia, Egypt: detail of facade showing Ramesses II and the sun god Ra; a man squats in the foreground to show scale. Photograph by Pascal Sébah, ca. 1875.
Sébah, Pascal, 1823-1886.Date: 1875Reference: 576076i- Books
Ancient Egyptian & Cnidian medicine : the relationship of their aetiological concepts of disease / by Robert O. Steuer and J.B. de C.M. Saunders.
Steuer, Robert O. (Robert Otto)Date: 1959- Books
Can no physician be found? : the influence of religion on medical pluralism in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Israel / by Laura Zucconi.
Zucconi, Laura M.Date: 2013- Archives and manuscripts
Various articles on medicine in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and India
Boscawen, William St. Chad, 1854-1913Date: 1910-1912Reference: MS.8857Part of: Boscawen, William St. Chad (1854-1913)- Videos
The Ancient E.R.
Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006219: Ancient Egyptian musicians
Date: 21 April 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/52/2Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Digital Images
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Snake charmer holding an Egyptian cobra (Naja haje), whose venom immobolises its prey by attacking the nervous system. The Brooklyn Museum Papyri from Ancient Egypt includes a book of snakebites which describes all the possible snakes to be found in Egypt with a compendium of treatments. The papyri were translated in 1966-1967 by Serge Sauneron.
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Letters on Greece; being a sequel to Letters on Egypt, and containing travels through Rhodes, Crete, and other islands of the Archipelago; with comparative remarks on their Ancient and present State, and observations on the Government, Character, and Mann
Savary, M- Archives and manuscripts
Ancient Egyptian Symbolism V
Date: c.1950s-1960sReference: PP/EFG/B.50Part of: Griffith, Edward Fyfe (1895-1987)- Archives and manuscripts
Ancient Egyptian Symbolism III
Date: c.1950s-1960sReference: PP/EFG/B.48Part of: Griffith, Edward Fyfe (1895-1987)- Pictures
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Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian deities advertising Henry S. Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum. Lithograph, 1913.
Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936.Date: [1913]Reference: 47560i- Books
Ancient Egyptian ophthalmology / Arlington C. Krause.
Krause, Arlington C. (Arlington Colton), 1896-Date: 1933