Snake Identification in the Ancient Egyptian Brooklyn Medical Papyrus: A New Study of the Twenty-Four Extant Registers of the 'Snakebite Papyrus'

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, a pragmatic medical treatise concerned with snake identification, snakebite, and treatment. Dating to sometime in the seventh through fourth centuries BCE, the document is the first-known structured treatise...