These include medical papyri, and archaeological evidence from buildings, tomb reliefs, physicians’ stelae, votive offerings, surgical instruments, and equipment owned by magico-medical practitioners, as well as human skeletal and mummified remains. Previous studies on ancient Egyptian medicine have generally categorised and described diseases and medical conditions identified in textual, iconographic, archaeological, and palaeopathological sources. Image: Drawing and facsimile painting by Norman de Garis Davies (1927, Two Ramesside Tombs at Thebes).
A craftsman receiving treatment to his eye in a scene from the tomb of the master builder Ipwy at Thebes.
