Snake identification in the ancient egyptian brooklyn medical papyrus. a new study of the twenty-four extant registers of the 'snakebite papyrus', hardback/gordon w. schuett

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.

Publisher: Lockwood Press Author(s): Gordon W.

Schuett Illustration(s): Illd in colour and b&w Number of pages: 212 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 177 x 252 x 17 Cover type: Hardback.