Author: James P. Allen
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391701
Category : Art, Egyptian
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Diseases and injuries were major concerns for ancient Egyptians. This book, featuring some sixty-four objects from the Metropolitan Museum, discusses how both practical and magical medicine informed Egyptian art and for the first time reproduces and translates treatments described in the spectacular Edwin Smith Papyrus.