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Available
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Publication
Archaeopress Publishing (2023), 86 pages
Description
This volume provides a medical and historical re-evaluation of the function and importance of the human brain in ancient Egypt. The study evaluates whether treatment of the brain during anthropogenic mummification was linked to medical concepts of the brain.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
86 p.
ISBN
1803274778 / 9781803274775
Local notes
This is an amazing little book! The author looks at the brain as preserved in mummies, as described in medical texts, and in spells of the Book of the Dead. Taken together, she makes a very convincing case that the Ancient Egyptians understood the importance of the brain and did not treat it differently form other organs. -- DHF