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Snake Identification in the Ancient Egyptian Brooklyn Medical Papyrus: A New Study of the Twenty-Four Extant Registers of the 'Snakebite Papyrus'
Gonzalo M. Sanchez
Snake Identification in the Ancient Egyptian Brooklyn Medical Papyrus: A New Study of the Twenty-Four Extant Registers of the 'Snakebite Papyrus'
Gonzalo M. Sanchez
This book is about snakebite and snake identification in ancient Egypt. The authors--in a remarkable collaboration between the fields of Egyptology, medicine, herpetology, biology and ecology--offer a new examination of the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, better-known as the Snakebite Papyrus, the first-known treatise on snakebites from antiquity.
212 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 2, 2024 |
ISBN13 | 9781957454030 |
Publishers | Lockwood Press |
Pages | 212 |
Dimensions | 252 × 177 × 17 mm · 636 g |
Language | English |
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