Here are seven medicinal plant species that have proved their worth in gold and may well have more to give to the future of ...

Magic was a part of everyday life for the ancient Egyptians. They believed that dark powers were everywhere and that they ...

In his ninth-century poem Ya Sa’eli, Ibn Al Rumi describes some of his favourite foods and how he likes to enjoy them. The ...

The use of herbal preparations, as medicines, goes back thousands of years. The Ebers Papyrus, dating back to 1550 BCE, records the use of hundreds of herbal preparations for numerous ailments in ...

For example, aloe vera was advocated for in an Egyptian scroll known as the Ebers Papyrus. As a result, the integration of different cultures into medicine would allow it to progress further than ...

Experts found the first written report of the skin xenograft (which is skin from animals) in a document called the Papyrus of Ebers. The use of a human skin allograft (skin from another human ...

The second is the so-called “worm theory”, which is based on a technique used to remove parasitic worms that is found in the Ebers Papyrus , an ancient Egyptian medical document dating around the ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the ...

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...

A new papyrus dating back over 1,880 years is giving archaeologists new insight into the Roman world’s legal system. Academics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and ...