August
21
/ 2018
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark has announced a very important discovery. During an international project to decipher ancient Egyptian texts, one expert has been able to translate a papyrus that has long been a mystery. The expert found that the ancient Egyptians had a greater understanding of biology than previously believed and made a significant contribution to the development of science. The text also demonstrates the importance of astrology in Egyptian civilization. Egyptian Texts There have been a great many Egyptian medical texts found on subjects as diverse as ingrown eyelashes, the gender of fetuses to hangover cures. Now new technologies have helped researchers to better understand these often-fragmentary papyrus texts. These documents give recipes for medical treatments made
