Last updated: August 25
Selected Bibliography
© 2011. Peter A. Piccione

Bibliographical entries are listed here first by general subject areas then by author. Click on any subject area in the list.

    Subject Areas:
  1. Ancient Egypt: General References and Encyclopedias
  2. General Egyptian Histories
  3. Medical Bibliographies, Dictionaries and Reference Materials

  4. Dentistry and Dental Health
  5. Ethnology and Ethnological Issues: Egypt and Nubia
  6. General Studies in Egyptian Medicine and Human Biology
  7. Gynaecology, Contraception and Abortion
  8. Human Anatomy: Notions and Conceptions
  9. Molecular Biology and DNA Studies
  10. Mummies and Mummification (see also Palaeopatholgy and Medical Anthropology)
  11. Palaeopatholgy and Medical Anthropology (see also Mummies and Mummification)
  12. Pharmacology and Pharmacopoeia
  13. Physicians: Social Status, Function and Training
  14. Primary Sources: The Medical Papyri and Texts
  15. Relations with Greek, Roman and Other Medicines
  16. Religious and Magical Issues
  17. Sex and Sexuality
  18. Surgery, Surgical Operations and Trepanation
  19. Urology and Circumcision


Ancient Egypt: General References and Encyclopedias

Baines, J. and Malek, J. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. New York: Facts on File, 1980.

Bard, K., editor. Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London and New York: Routledge, 199.

Dawson, W. R and E. P. Uphill. Who Was Who in Egyptology. Third edition, revised by M. L. Bierbrier. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1995.

Lexikon der Ägyptologie, eds. Helck, W., E. Otto and W. Westendorf. Seven volumes. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975-1989. (This is the professionals' encyclopedia of ancient Egypt. Some articles are in English, while others are in German or French. Use German and French dictionaries to look up foreign words. Even if you do not read German or French, all articles contain highly useful bibliographies.)

Manley, Bill. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt. London: Penguin Books, 1996.

Meyers, Eric M., editor. Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Ancient Near East. Five volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Redford, D. B. Pharaonic Kinglists, Annals and Day-Books: A Contribution to the Study of the Egyptian Sense of History. Mississauga: Benben Publications, 1986.

Redford, Donald B., editor. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Sasson, Jack M., editor. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Four volumes. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.


General Histories

Aldred, C. The Egyptians. Third edition, revised and updated by Aidan Dodson. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.

Bagnall, R. S. Egypt in Late Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Bowman, A. K. Egypt after the Pharaohs. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986.

Brewer, Douglas J. and Emily Teeter. Egypt and the Egyptians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Emery, W. B. Archaic Egypt. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961.

Grimal, N. A History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Paper edition, 1994.

Harris, J. R., editor. The Legacy of Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Hayes, W. C. The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two volumes. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom. 1953
Volume 2, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom. 1959.

Hoffman, M. Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Historical Foundations of Egyptian Civilization. Rev. ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Kemp, B. Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. London: Routledge, 1989.

Kitchen, K. A. The Egyptian Nineteenth Dynasty. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1977.

Kitchen, K. A. Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1982.

Kitchen, K. A. The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650 B.C.). 3rd. ed., rev. with new Preface and Supplement. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1995.

Quirke, S. and Spencer, J. The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

Thompson, D. J. Memphis under the Ptolemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988

Trigger, B. G., Kemp, B. J., O' Connor, D., Lloyd, A. B. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.


Medical Bibliographies, Dictionaries and Reference Materials

Deines, H. von and Westendorf, W. Wörterbuch der medizinischen Texte. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 7. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1962.

Goldstein, M. Internationale Bibliographie der altägyptischen Medizin, 1850-1930. Berlin: Aegyptologischer Verlag M. Goldstein, 1933.

Piccione, Peter A., ed. Classified Bibliographical Database of Ancient Egyptian Medicine and Medical Practice, Including: Palaeopathology, Biology and Human Anthropology (from A.D. 1676 to the present) NB: A work in progress. (click to open).

Rose, Jerome C., ed., Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Bibliography. British Museum. Occasional Paper 112, London: British Museum, 1996.


Dentistry and Dental Health

Allen, C. "A Volume of the 'Operator of the Teeth.'" Medical History 14/4 (1970): 418-19.

Grilletto, R. "Caries and Dental Attrition in the Early Egyptians as Seen in the Turin Collection." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed. D. R. Brothwell and B. Chiarelli, 325-31. New York: Academic Press, 1973.

Harris, J. E., Iskander, Z. and Farid, S. "Restorative Dentistry in Ancient Egypt: An Archaeologic Fact!' Michigan Dental Association Journal 57 (1975): 401-4.

Iskander, Z. and Harris, J. E. "A Skull with a Silver Bridge to Replace a Central Incisor." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 62 (1977): 85-90.

Leek, F. F. "Did a Dental Profession Exist in Ancient Egypt During the 3rd Millennium B.C.?" Medical History 16 (1972): 404-6.

Leek, F. F. "Teeth and Bread in Ancient Egypt." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 58 (1972): 126-32.

Nickol, T., Germer, R., Lieberenz, S., Schmidt, F. and Wilke, W. "An Examination of the Dental State of an Egyptian Mummy by Means of Computer Temography: A Contribution to 'Dentistry in Ancient Egypt'." Bulletin of the History of Dentistry 43 (November, 1995): 105-12.

Reymond, E.A.E. "From an Ancient Egyptian Dentist's Handbook." In Mélanges Adolphe Gutbub, by l'Institut d'Égyptologie, Université Paul Valery, 183-99. Montpellier: Université de Montpellier, 1984.

Thornton, Francis, "Changes in Oral Pathology through Time of Nile Valley Populations Predynastic to Roman," In The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East, ed. S. Campbell and A. Green, 41-44, Oxbow Monograph 51, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1995.

Weeks, K. R. "Ancient Egyptian Dentistry." In An X-Ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies, ed. J. E. Harris and E. F. Wente, 99-121. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.


Ethnology and Ethnological Issues: Egypt and Nubia

Bard, K. "Ancient Egyptians and the Issue of Race." In Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 103-11. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Batrawi, A. "The Racial History of Egypt and Nubia, Part I." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 75 (1945): 81-101.

Batrawi, A. "The Racial History of Egypt and Nubia, Part II." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 76 (1946): 131-56.

Berry, A. C. and Berry, R. J. "Origins and Relations of the Ancient Egyptians Based on a Study of Non-metrical Variations in the Skull." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed., D. R. Brothwell and B. A. Chiarelli, 199-208. New York, 1973.

Berry, A. C., Berry, R. J. and Ucko, P. J. "Genetical Changes in Ancient Egypt." Man n.s. 2 (1967): 551-68.

Billy, G. "Population Changes in Egypt and Nubia." Journal of Human Evolution 6 (1977): 697-704.

Brace, C. L., Tracer, D. B., Yaroch, L. A., Robb, J., Brandt, K. and Nelson, A. R. "Clines and Clusters Versus 'Race': A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36 (1993): 1-31. Reprinted in Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 129-64. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Brothwell, D. R. and Chiarelli, B. A., editors. Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians. New York, 1973.

Burnor, D. R. and Harris, J. E. "Racial Continuity in Lower Nubia: 12,000 to the Present." Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences 77 (1968): 113-21.

Carlson, D. S. and Van Gerven, D. P. "Diffusion, Biological Determinism, and Biocultural Adaptation in the Nubian Corridor." American Anthropology 81 (1979): 561-5180.

Crichton, J. M. "A Multiple Discriminant Analysis of Egyptian and African Negro Crania." Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 57 (1966): 46-67.

[Devisse, J.] "Report on the Symposium on 'The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Meroitic Script.'" In General History of Africa (Abridged Edition). Volume 2, Ancient Civilizations of Africa, ed. G. Mokhtar, 33-61. London: J. Curry for UNESCO, 1990.

Drenkhahn, R. "Darstellungen von Negern in Ägypten [Representations of Negroes in Egypt]." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1967.

Dzierzykray-Rogalski, T. "On the Black Variety at Kadero Sudan." Current Anthropology 19 (1978): 406-07.

Dzierzykray-Rogalski, T. "Racial Affinities of Prehistoric Population at Kadero." In Études nubiennes: Conference du Genève. Actes du VIIe Congrès International d'Études Nubiennes, 3-8 Septembre 1990. Vol. 2, Communications, 311-13. Neuchâtel: C. Bonnet, 1994.

Fischer, H. "Yellow-skinned Representations of Men in the Old Kingdom," in "Varia Aegyptiaca." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 2 (1963): 17-51.

Van Gerven, D. P., Armelagos, G. J. and Rohr, A. "Continuity and Change in Cranial Morphology of Three Nubian Archaeological Populations." Man 12 (1977): 270-77.

Van Gerven, D. P., Carlson, D. S. and Armelagos, G. J. "Racial History and Biocultural Adaptation of Nubian Archaeological Populations." Journal of African History 14 (1973): 555-64.

Greene, D. L. "Dental Anthropology of Early Egypt and Nubia." Journal of Human Evolution 1 (1972): 315-24. Reprinted in Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed. D. R. Brothwell and B. Chiarelli. New York: Academic Press, 1973.

Greene, D. L. "Dentition and the Biological Relationships of Some Meroitic, X-Group, and Christian Populations from Wadi Halfa, Sudan." Kush 14 (1966): 284-88.

Jeffreys, M. D. W. "Circumcision: Its Diffusion from Egypt among the Bantu." Criteria (Witwatersrand) 1 (1949): 73-84. Recapitulated in African Abstracts 1 (1950): 99, no. 314.

Johnson, Andrew L. and Lovell, Nancy C. "Biological Differentiation at Predynastic Naqada, Egypt: An Analysis of Dental Morphological Traits." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 93/4 (April 1994): 427-33.

Johnson, Andrew L. and Lovell, Nancy C. "Dental Morphological Evidence for Biological Continuity between the A-Group and C-Group Periods in Lower Nubia," International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 5 (1995): 368-76.

Keita, S. "Further Studies of Crania from Ancient Northern Africa: an Analysis of Crania from First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Discriminant Functions." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 87/3 (March 1992): 245-54.

Keita, S. "Studies of Ancient Crania from Northern Africa." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 83 (1990): 35-48.

Leahy, A. "Ethnic Diversity in Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 225-34. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Nielsen, O. V. "Population Movements and Changes in Ancient Nubia with Special Reference to the Relationship Between C-group, New Kingdom and Kerma." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed., D. R. Brothwell and B. A. Chiarelli, 31-46. New York, 1973.

Ortiz de Montellano, B. R. "Melanin, Afrocentricity and Pseudoscience." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36 (1993): 33-58.

Prowse, Tracy L. and Lovell, Nancy C., "Biological Continuity between the A- and C-Groups in Lower Nubia: Evidence from Cranial Non-metrical Traits." International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 5 (June, 1995): 103-14.

Robertson, J. H. and Bradley, R. J. "On the Presence of the Negro in the Nile Valley." Current Anthropology 18 (1977): 177-78.

Roesing, F. W. "The Negroid Population Component in the Border City of Aswan from the Predynastic to the Late Period." In Akten des vierten Ägyptologen-Kongresses, München 1985, ed. S. Schoske, 307-15. Two volumes. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur. Beiheft 1. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1988.

Rose, J. C., Armelagos, G. J. and Perry, S. "Dental Anthropology of the Nile Valley." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 61-74. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Simon, C. "Evaluation de la morphologie des populations humaines de Nubie: Essai sur la variabilité des populations." In Études nubiennes: Conference du Genève. Actes du VIIe Congrès International d'Études Nubiennes, 3-8 Septembre 1990. Vol. 2, Communications, 287-94. Neuchâtel: C. Bonnet, 1994.

Simon, C. and Menck, R. "Diachronic Study of the Internal Structure of the Population of the Nile Valley by Means of Multivariate Analysis of Morphometrical Data." Antropologia Contemporanea 8 (1985): 95-104.

Snowden, Jr., F. M. Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Snowden, Jr., F. M. "Bernal's 'Blacks and the Afrocentrists." In Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 112-28. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Snowden, Jr., F. M. "Bernal's 'Blacks,' Herodotus and Other Classical Evidence." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of Black Athena (Fall, 1989): 97-109.

Snowden, Jr., F. M. Blacks in Antiquity; Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1970.

Strouhal, E. "Evidence of the Early Penetration of Negroes into Prehistoric Egypt." Journal of African History 12 (1971): 1-9.

Strouhal, E. "Rassengeschichte Ägyptens [Racial History of Egypt]." In Rassengeschichte der Menschheit, ed. K. Saller and I. Schwidetzky, 8-89. Vol. 3. Lieferung. Munich: Oldenburg, 1975.

Trigger, B. "Nubian, Negro, Black, Nilotic?" In Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan, ed. S. Wenig, 26-35. Volume 1, The Essays. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978.

Wiercinski, A. "The Analysis of Racial Structure of Early Dynastic Populations in Egypt." In Materialy i Prace Antropologiczne 72, by Zaklad Antropologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 3-48. Wroclaw: Zaklad Antropologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1965.

Wiercinski, A. "Introductory Remarks Concerning the Anthropology of Ancient Egypt." Bulletin de la Société de Géographie d'Égypte 3 (1958): 73-84.

Wiercinski, A. "The Problem of Anthroposcopic Variations in the Ancient Egyptians." In Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed. D. R. Brothwell and B. Chiarelli. New York: Academic Press, 1973.

Vercoutter, J. "The Iconography of the Black in Ancient Egypt from the Beginnings to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty." In The Image of the Black in Western Art. Volume 1, From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J. Vercoutter, J. Leclant, F. M. Snowden and J. Desanges, 32-88, 291-92. New York: William Morrow, 1976.

Vercoutter, J. "The Peopling of Ancient Egypt." In The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script: Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Cairo from 28 January to 3 February 1974, by the Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Meroitic Script. General History of Africa 1. Paris: UNESCO, 1978.

Yurco, F. "Were the Ancient Egyptians Black or White?" Biblical Archaeology Review (Sept/Oct., 1989): 24-29, 58.


General Studies in Egyptian Medicine and Human Biology

Adamson, P. B. "Human Diseases and Deaths in the Ancient Near East." Die Welt des Orients 13 (1982): 5-14.

Brothwell, D. R. and Sandison, A. T., eds. Diseases in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diseases, Injuries and Surgery of Early Populations. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1967.

Buikstra, J. E., Baker, B. J. and Cook, D. C. "What Diseases Plagued Ancient Egyptians? A Century of Controversy Considered." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 24-53. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Cockburn, A. "Death and Disease in Ancient Egypt." Science 181 (1970): 470-71.

Deines, H. von, Grapow, H. and Westendorf, W. Ergänzungen: Drogenqanten, Sachgruppen, Nachträge, Bibliographie, Generalregister. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973

Ebeid, N. I. Egyptian Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs. Cairo: The General Egyptian Book Organization, 1999.

Engelmann, H. and Hallof, J. "Zur medizinischen Nothilfe und Unfallversorgung auf staatlichen Arbeitsplätzen im alten Ägypten [On Emergency Medical Assistance and Accident Provision on State Jobs in Ancient Egypt]." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 122 (1995): 104-37.

Estes, J. W. The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt. Rev. ed. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1993.

Filer, J. Disease. Egyptian Bookshelf Series. London: British Museum, 1995.

Ghalioungui, P. "Early Specialization in Ancient Egyptian Medicine and Its Possible Relation to the Archetypal Image of the Human Organism." Medical History 13 (1969): 383-86.

Ghalioungui, P. The House of Life, Per Ankh: Medicine and Magic in Ancient Egypt. Amsterdam: B. M. Israel Boekhandel, 1973. A revision of Magic and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt. London: Hodder and Stoughton,1963. Reprinted New York, Barnes & Noble, 1965.

Ghalioungui, P. "Medicine in Ancient Egypt." In An X-Ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies, ed. J. E. Harris and E. F. Wente, 52-98. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Ghalioungui, P. and Dawakhly, Z. el-. Health and Healing in Ancient Egypt: A Pictorial Essay. Cairo: The Organization for Authorship and Translation, 1965.

Grapow, H. Kranker, Krankheiten und Arzt. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 3. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1956.

Harer, W. B. "Health in Pharaonic Egypt." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 19-23. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Harer, W. B. Review of The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt, by J. W. Estes. In Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 28 (1991): 229-31.

Harris, J. R. "Medicine." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, edited by J. R. Harris, pp. 112-37. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

Kamal, H. A Dictionary of Pharaonic Medicine. Cairo: The National Publication House, 1967.

Leca, A.-P. La médecine égyptienne au temps des pharaons. Paris: Les Editions Roger Dacosta, 1971, 1986.

Lefebvre, G. Essai sur la médecine égyptienne de l'époque pharaonique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1956.

Manniche, L. Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. London: Kegan Paul International, 1987.

Mostafa, D. "Guérir dans l'Égypte ancienne: experience religieuse, rituel magique ou pratique médicale. Varia Aegyptiaca 9/1-2 (April/August 1993): 45-57.

Nunn, J. F. Ancient Egyptian Medicine. London: British Museum, 1996; Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Reeves, C. Egyptian Medicine. Shire Egyptology Series 15. Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 1992.

Ritner, "Magic in Medicine," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 2, ed. D. B. Redford, 326-329. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Ritner, R. K. "Medicine." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 2, ed. D. B. Redford, 353-356. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Ritner, R. K. Review of The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt, by J. W. Estes. In Society for Ancient Medicine Newsletter 18 (1990): 18.

Sigerist, H. E. A History of Medicine. Vol. 1, Primitive and Archaic Medicine, 217-373. London: Oxford University Press, 1951.

Steuer, R. O. "(Whdw): Aetiological Principle of Pyaemia in Ancient Egyptian Medicine." Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Supplement 10 (1948): 1-36.

Strouhal, E. Life in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Strouhal, E. "Revealing the Sufferings of the Ancient Egyptians." Egyptian Archaeology: The Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society 6 (1995): 11-13.

Weeks, K. R. "Medicine, Surgery and Public Health in Ancient Egypt." In Civiliations of the Ancient Near East, vol 3., ed. Jack M. Sasson et al., 1787-98. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.

Westendorf, W. Erwachen der Heilkunst: Die Medizin im Alten Ägypten. Zurich: Artemis & Winkler, 1992.

Westendorf, W. Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. Two volumes. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung. Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten 36. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999.

Wilson, J. A. "Ancient Egyptian Medicine." Journal of the International College of Surgeons 41 (1964): 665-73.


Gynaecology, Contraception and Abortion

Bardis, P. D. "Contraception in Ancient Egypt." Indian Journal of the History of Medicine 12/2 (1967): 1-3. Reprinted in Centaurus 12 (1968): 305-07.

Cole, D. "Abstracts of Publications Concerning Gynecology and Obstetrics for the Women of Ancient Egypt." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Washington, D. C., April 18-20, 1986.

Cole, D. "Obstetrics for the Women of Ancient Egypt." Discussions in Egyptology 5 (1986): 27-33.

Deines, H. von. "[mwt-rmtt] Mutter der Menschen." Mitteilungen des Instituts für Orientforschung 4 (1956): 27-39.

Feucht, E. "Kinderlösigkeit und -wunsch." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 3, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 440-41. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1979.

Forbes, T. R. The Midwife and the Witch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.

Frandsen, P. J. "Tabu" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 6, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 135-42. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986.

Ghalioungui, P. "The Persistence and Spread of Some Obstetric Concepts Held in Ancient Egypt." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte Ancienne 62 (1977): 141-54.

Ghalioungui, P. and Guindi, S. "The Persistence of the Use of Catamenial and Uterine Blood in Folk Medicine." Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte 47 (1966): 65-68.

Ghalioungui, P., Khalil, S. and Ammar, A. R. "On an Ancient Egyptian Method of Diagnosing Pregnancy and Determining Foetal Sex." Medical History 7 (1963): 241-46.

Himes, N. E. Medical History of Contraception. Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1936.

Inhorn, M. C. Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

Iversen, E. Papyrus Carlsberg No. VIII with Some Remarks on the Egyptian Origin of Some Popular Birth Prognoses. Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser. Vol. 26, no. 5. København: E. Munksgaard, 1939.

Janssen, R. M. and Janssen, Jac. J. Growing Up in Ancient Egypt. London: The Rubicon Press, 1990.

Jonckheere, F. "La durée de la gestation d'après les textes égyptiens." Chronique d'Égypte 30 (1955): 19-45.

Kemp, B. J. "Wall Paintings from the Workmen's Village at El-`Amarna." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 65 (1979): 47-53.

Meinardus, O. "Mythological, Historical, and Sociological Aspects of the Practice of Female Circumcision among the Egyptians." Acta Ethnographica Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae, series 9, 16 (1967): 387-97.

Meinardus, O. "The Theological Issues of Contraception in the Coptic Church." Orientalia Suecana 16 (1967): 57-84.

Pinch, G. "Childbirth and Female Figurines at Deir el-Medina and el-Amarna." Orientalia 52 (1983): 405-414.

Ritner, R. "A Uterine Amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43 (1984): 209-21.

Robins, G. Reflections of Women in the New Kingdom: Ancient Egyptian Art from the British Museum. Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, 1995.

Robins, G. "Women and Children in Peril: Pregnancy, Birth and Infant Mortality in Ancient Egypt." KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 5/4 (1994-1995): 24-35.

Roth, A. M. "Fingers, Stars, and the 'Opening of the Mouth': The Nature and Function of the ntrwj-Blades." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 79 (1993): 57-79.

Roth, A. M. "The pss-kf and the "Opening of the Mouth" Ceremony: A Ritual of Birth and Rebirth." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 78 (1992): 113-47.

Sandison, A. T. "Empfängnisverhutung" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 1, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 1227-28. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.

Sandison, A. T. "Frauenheilkunde und -sterblichkeit" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 2, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 295-97. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1977.

Schulman, A. R. "A Birth Scene(?) from Memphis." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 22 (1985): 97-103.

Sijpesteijn, P. J. Gynaecologische aspecten van de Papyrus Ebers. Amsterdam: Philips-Duphar, 1972.

Stevens, J. M. "Gynaecology from Ancient Egypt: The Papyrus Kahun: A Translation of the Oldest Treatise on Gynaecology that has Survived the Ancient World." The Medical Journal of Australia 21 (December 1975): 949-52.

Strouhal, E. "Maternity in Ancient Egypt." In Anthropology of Maternity, ed. J. Doleal and J. Gutvirt, 281-92. Prague: Charles University, 1977.

Wells, C. "Ancient Obstetric Hazards and Female Mortality." Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 51/11 (December 1975): 1235-49.


Human Anatomy: Notions and Conceptions

Bianchi, R. S. "Skelett" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 5, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 981-82. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1984.

Gordon, A. H. "Origins of Ancient Egyptian Medicine, Part 1: Some Egyptological Evidence." KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 1/2 (Summer 1990): 26-29.

Grapow, H. Anatomie und Physiologie. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 1. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1954.

Naguib, S. "Interpreting Abstract Concepts: Towards an Attempt to Classify the Ancient Egyptian Notion of Person." Discussions in Egyptology 29 (1994): 99-124.

Schwabe, C. W. "The Origins of Ancient Egyptian Medicine, Part 2: Ethno-archaeological and Biological Aspects." KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 1/3 (Fall 1990): 52-55.

Weeks, K. R. "The Anatomical Knowledge of the Ancient Egyptians and the Representation of the Human Figure in Egyptian Art." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1970.

Westendorf, W. "Anatomie." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 1, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 258-62. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.


Molecular Biology and DNA Studies

Goudsmit, J., Dekker, J., Smit, L., Kuiken, C., Geelen, J. and Perizonius, R. "Analysis of Retrovirus Sequences in c. 5300 Years Old Egyptian Mummy DNA Obtained via PCR Amplification and Molecular Cloning." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 91-97. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Harer, W. B. "Implications of Molecular Biology for Egyptology." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 32 (1995): 67-70.

Hedges, R. E. M. and Sykes, B. A. "The Extraction and Isolation of DNA from Archeological Bone." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 98-103. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Jones, J. S. "Mummified Human DNA Cloned." Nature 314 (18 April 1985): 576.

Pääbo, S. "DNA is Preserved in Ancient Egyptian Mummies." In Science in Egyptology, ed. A. R. David, 283-88. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.

Pääbo, S. "Molecular Cloning of Ancient Egyptian Mummy DNA." Nature 314 (18 April 1985): 644-45.

Pääbo, S. "Preservation of DNA in Ancient Egyptian Mummies." Journal of Archaeological Science 12 (1985): 411-17.(Palaeopathology--DNA Studies; Molecular Anthropology)

Pääbo, S. and Di Rienzo, A. "A Molecular Approach to the Study of Egyptian History." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 86-90. London: British Museum Press, 1993.


Mummies and Mummification (see also Palaeopatholgy and Medical Anthropology)

Adams, B. Egyptian Mummies. Shire Egyptology 1. Aylesbury: Shire Publications, 1984.

Andrews, C. Egyptian Mummies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984

Balout, L., ed. La momie de Ramses II: Contribution scientifique à l'Égyptologie sous la direction de Lionel Balout et C. Roubet, avec la participation de Ch. Desroches-Noblecourt, etc. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1985.

D'Auria, S. "Mummification in Ancient Egypt." In Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, ed. S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara and C. H. Roehrig, 14-19. Boston: MFA, 1988.(Mummification)

Ikram, S. and A. Dodson. The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1998.

Iskander, Z. "Mummification in Ancient Egypt: Development, History and Techniques." In An X-Ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies, ed. J. E. Harris and E. F. Wente, 1-51. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.


Palaeopatholgy and Medical Anthropology (see also Mummies and Mummification)

Armelagos, G. J. and Mills, J. O. "Palaeopathology as Science: The Contribution of Egyptology." In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. W. V. Davies and R. Walker, 1-18. London: British Museum Press, 1993

Brothwell, D. R. and Chiarelli, B. A., eds. Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians. New York: Academic Press, 1973

Brothwell, D. R. and Higgs, E. Science in Archaeology. 2nd ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969.

Connolly, R. C., Harrison, R. G. and Ahmed, S. "Serological Evidence for the Parentage of Tutankhamun and Smenkhkare." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 62 (1976): 184-86.

Connolly, R. C., Harrison, R. G., Abdalla, A. B. and Ahmed, S. "An Analysis of the Interrelationships between Pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty." MASCA Journal 1/6 (1980): 178-81.

David, A. R., ed. Science in Egyptology. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.

David, A. R. and Tapp, E., eds. Evidence Embalmed: Modern Medicine and the Mummies of Ancient Egypt. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984.(Mummies; Palaeopathology)

David, A. R. and Tapp, E. The Mummy's Tale: The Scientific and Medical Investigation of Natsef-Amun, Priest in the Temple at Karnak. London: M. O'Mara Books Ltd., 1992.

Davies, W. V. and Walker, R., eds. Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Fleming, S., Fishman, B. O'Connor, D. and Silverman, D. The Egyptian Mummy: Secrets and Science. University Museum Handbook 1. Philadelphia: University Museum, 1980.

Harris, J. E. and Weeks, K. R. X-Raying the Pharaohs. New York: Scribner's, 1973.

Harris, J. E. and Wente, E. F., eds. An X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Leek, F. F. The Human Remains from the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun's Tomb Series 5. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1972.

Manchester, K. "Tuberculosis and Leprosy in Antiquity: An Interpretation." MASCA Journal 4/1 (1986): 22-30.

Morse, D., Brothwell, D. R. and Ucko, P. J. "Tuberculosis in Ancient Egypt." American Review of Respiratory Disease 90 (1964): 524-41.

Strouhal, E. "Ancient Egyptian Case of Carcinoma." Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine," second series 54 (1978): 290-302.


Pharmacology and Pharmacopoeia

Anderson, F. "A Flower for Eternity." Garden (January/February, 1983): 8-13.

Arnold, H. J. "Preliminary Report on a Study of the Materia Medica of the Graeco-Roman Period in Egypt." Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies 3 (1986): 81-125.

Aufrère, S. "Études de lexicologie et d'histoire naturelle I-III." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 83 (1983): 1-111.

Aufrère, S. "Études de lexicologie et d'histoire naturelle IV-VI." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 84 (1984): 1-21.

Aufrère, S. "Études de lexicologie et d'histoire naturelle VIII-XVII: Remarques au sujet des végétaux interdits dans le temple d'Isis à Philae." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 86 (1986): 1-32.

Aufrère, S. "Études de lexicologie et d'histoire naturelle XVIII-XXVI." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 87 (1987): 21-44.

Bassett, E. J., Keith, M. S., Armelagos, G. J., Martin, D. L. and Villanueva, A. R. "Tetracycline-Labeled Human Bone from Ancient Sudanese Nubia (A.D. 350)." Science 209, no. 4464 (26 September 1980): 1532-34.

Bazzi, F. "La medicina, la specialità mediche e l'art farmaceutica dell' antico Egitto." Minerva Medica 50 (1959): 1690-1704.

Bellamy, D. J. and Pfister, A. World Medicine: Plants, Patients, and People. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

Bisset, N. G. "Was Opium Known in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt?" Journal of Ethnopharmacology 41 (1994): 99-101.

Brunner-Traut, E. "Lotos." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 3, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 1091-96. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1979.

Buchheim, L. "Die 'Fleischverband' im alten Ägypten." Sudhoffs Archiv 42 (1958): 97-116.

Buchheim, L. "Die Verordnung von 'Lebendem' Fleisch im altägyptischen Papyri." Sudhoffs Archiv 44 (1960): 97-116.

Chouliara-Raïos, H. L'Abeille et miel en Égypte d'après les papyrus grecs. Jannina: G. Tsolis, 1988.

Crawford [Thompson], D. J. "The Opium Poppy: A Study in Ptolemaic Agriculture." In Problèmes de la terre en Grèce ancienne, ed. M. Finlay, 223-51. Paris: Mouton, 1973.

Darby, W. J., Ghalioungui, P. and Grivetti, L. Food: The Gift of Osiris. Two volumes. London: Academic Press, 1976.

Dawson, W. "Bats as Materia Medica." Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16 (1925): 221-27.

Dawson, W. "The Mouse in Egyptian and Later Medicine." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 10 (1924): 83-86.

Deines, H. von Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Drogennamen. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 6. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1959

Deines, H. von, Grapow, H. and Westendorf, W. Ergänzungen: Drogenqanten, Sachgruppen, Nachträge, Bibliographie, Generalregister. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973.

Derchain, P. "Le lotus, la mandragore, et le perséa." Chronique d'Égypte 50 (1975): 65-86.

Dixon, D. M. "Masticatories in Ancient Egypt." Journal of Human Evolution 1 (1972): 433-49. Reprinted in Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, ed. D. R. Brothwell and B. Chiarelli. New York: Academic Press, 1973.

Emboden, W. A. "The Sacred Journey: Shamanistic Trance in the Context of the Narcotic Water Lily and the Mandrake." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 21 /1 (Jan.-March 1989): 61-75.

Emboden, W. A. "The Sacred Narcotic Lily of the Nile: Nymphaea Caerulea." Economic Botany 32 (1978): 395-407.

Emboden, W. A. "Transcultural Use of Narcotic Water Lilies of Ancient Egyptian and Maya Drug Ritual." Journal of Ethnopharmacology 3 (1981): 39-83.

Forbes, R. J. Studies in Ancient Technology. Four volumes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955-1956.

Gabra, S. "Drugs of Ancient Egypt." Cahiers d'Histoire Égyptienne, série 8, 4/5 (July 1956): 241-48.

Gabra, S. "Papaver Species and Opium through the Ages." Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte 37 (1956): 39-56.

Gammal, S. Y. el-. "Ancient Egyptian Roots in the Modern Medical and Pharmaceutical Civilisation." Bulletin of the Indian Institute of the History of Medicine 24 (July 1994): 120-26.

Gammal, S. Y. el-. Tarikh al-tibb wa-al-saydalah al-Misriyah. [History of Egyptian Medicine and Pharmacology]. Tarikh al-Misriyin, vol. 74. [Cairo]: al-Hayah al-Misriyah al-Ammah lil-Kit-ab, 1994.

Germer, R. "Ancient Egyptian Pharmaceutical Plants and the Eastern Mediterranean." In The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World, ed. I. and W. Jacob, 69-80. Studies in Ancient Medicine 7. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993.

Germer, R. "Untersuchungen über Arzneimittelpflanzen im alten Ägypten [Researches on Pharmaceutical Plant in Ancient Egypt]." Ph.D. dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 1979.

Ghalioungui, P. "Ancient Egyptian Remedies and Medieval Arabic Writers." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 68 (1969): 41-46.

Ghalioungui, P. "A Comparison Between the Medical Plants Mentioned in Graeco-Roman and Ancient Egyptian Papyri." Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies 3 (1986): 9-16.

Ghalioungui, P. and Guindi, S. "The Persistence of the Use of Catamenial and Uterine Blood in Folk Medicine." Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte 47 (1966): 65-68.

Goldwater, L. Mercury: A History of Quicksilver. Baltimore: York Press, 1972.

Harer, W. Benson, Jr. "Pharmacological and Biological Properties of the Egyptian Lotus." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 22 (1985): 49-54.

Harris, J. R. Lexicographical Studies in Ancient Egyptian Minerals. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforsch. No. 54. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1961.

Hommes, P. "De toepassing van de plant in het oude Egypte [The Application of the Plant in Ancient Egypt]." De Ibis 12 (1987): 97-99.

Hort, A., Sir. Theophrastus' Enquiry into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs. The Loeb Classical Library 70. London: William Heinemann, 1968.

Jacob, I. "Ricinus communis: The Miracle Tree through 4,000 Years." In The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World, ed. I. and W. Jacob, 81-93. Studies in Ancient Medicine 7. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993.

Jacob, I. and Jacob, W., eds. The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World. Studies in Ancient Medicine 7. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993.

Jonckheere, F. "La 'mesdemet': Cosmetique et médicament égyptiens." Histoire de la Médecine: Revue Technique et Historique Destinée au Corps Médicale 2/7 (1952): 1-12.

Jonckheere, F. "Le 'Préparateur de Remèdes' dans l'organisation de pharmacie égyptiennes." In Ägyptologische Studien, ed. O. Firchow, 149-61. Deutscher Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Institut für Orientforschung, Veroffentlichen 29. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955.

Krikorian, A. D. "Were the Opium Poppy and Opium Known in the Ancient Near East?' Journal of the History of Biology 8 (1978): 94-114.

Long, B. "À propos de l'usage des menthe dans l'Égypte ancienne [Concerning the Use of Mint in Ancient Egypt]." In Mélanges Adolphe Gutbub, by l'Institut d'Égyptologie, Université Paul Valery, 145-59. Montpellier: Université de Montpellier, 1984.

Lucas, A. "Cosmetics, Perfumes and Incense in Ancient Egypt." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 16 (1930): 41-51.

Lucas, A. "Poisons in Ancient Egypt." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 24 (1938): 198-99.

Majno, G. The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Manniche, L. An Ancient Egyptian Herbal. London: British Museum Publications, 1989.

Matiegkova, L. "Drei organische Adstringentien in den altägyptischen medizinischen Papyri [Three Organic Astringents in the Ancient Egyptian Medical Papyri]." Archiv Orientalni 26 (1958): 1-27.

Merrillees, R. S. "Opium Trade in the Bronze Age Levant." Antiquity 36 (1962): 287-92.

Mills, J. O. "Beyond Nutrition: Antibiotics Produced through Grain Storage Practices, Their Recognition and Implications for the Egyptian Predynastic." In The Followers of Horus: Studies dedicated to Michael Allen Hoffman 1944-1990, ed. R. Friedman and B. Adams, 27-36. Egyptian Studies Association Publication 2. Oxbow Monograph 20. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1992.

Rand Nielsen, E. "Honey in Medicine." In Sesto Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia (1-8 Settembre 1991), 415-19. Vol. 2. Turin: International Congress of Egyptologists, 1993.

Sandy, D. B. "The Egyptian Term for Castor." Chronique d'Égypte 62 (1987): 49-52.

Tait, W. J. "P. Carlsberg 230: Eleven Fragments from a Demotic Herbal." In The Carlsberg Papyri 1: Demotic Texts from the Collection, ed. P. J. Frandsen, 47-92. Carstan Niebuhr Institute Publications 15. Copenhagen: The Carstan Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Museum Tusculanem Press, 1991.

Vikentiev, V. "Le Silphium et la rite du renouvellement de la vigueur." Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte 37 (1956): 123-50.

Weidner, S. Lotos im alten Ägypten: Vorarbeiten zu einer Kulturgeschichte von Nymphae lotos, Nymphae caerulea und Nelumbo nucifera in der dynastischen Zeit [The Lotus in Ancient Egypt: Preliminary Studies toward a Cultural History of Nymphae lotus, Nymphae caerulea and Nelumbo nucifera in the Dynastic Period]. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus Verlagsgesellschaft, 1985.

Westendorf, W. "Aphrodiasiakon." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 1, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 336-37. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.

Westendorf, W. "Heilmittel." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 2, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 1162-64. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1977.

Westendorf, W. "Rezepte." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 5, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 248-49. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1984.


Physicians: Social Status, Function and Training

Amundsen, D. and Ferngren, G. "The Forensic Role of Physicians in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 52 (1978): 336-53.

Clagett, M. "The Fruits of Scribal Activity in Ancient Egypt." Chap. in Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Vol. 1, Knowledge and Order, 1-46. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989.

Engelmann, H. and Hallof, J. "Der Sachmetpriester, ein früher Repräsentant der Hygiene und des Seuchenschutzes." Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 23 (1996): 103-46.

Gardiner, A. H. "The House of Life." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 24 (1938): 157-79.

Ghalioungui, P. The Physicians of Pharaonic Egypt. Deutsches Archaeologische Institut, Sonderschrift 10. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1983.

Ghalioungui, P. "Remarques sur la structure du corps médical égyptien à l'époque pharaonique." In Bulletin du Centenaire, 11-18. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale Supplement. Vol. 81, Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1981.

Habachi, L. and Ghalioungui, P. "The 'House of Life' of Bubastis." Chronique d'Égypte 46 (1971): 59-71.

Harer, W. B. "Peseshet--The First Female Physician?" Obstetrics and Gynecology 74 (1989): 960-61.

Hurry, J. Imhotep, the Vizier and Physician of King Zoser and Afterwards the Egyptian God of Medicine. 2d ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1928.

Hussein, M. I. "The Medical Title nrw phwt: Is It Really the 'Shepherd of the Anus'?" Discussions in Egyptology 35 (1996): 29-37.

Jonckheere, F. "Le 'Préparateur de Remèdes' dans l'organisation de pharmacie égyptiennes." In Ägyptologische Studien, ed. O. Firchow, 149-61. Deutscher Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Institut für Orientforschung, Veroffentlichen 29. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955.

Jonckheere, F. "Le cadre professionnel et administratif des médecins égyptiens." Chronique d'Égypte 26 (1951): 237-68.

Jonckheere, F. "Considerations sur l'auxiliaire médical pharaonique [Considerations on the Pharaonic Medical Auxiliary (=nursing)]." Chronique d'Égypte 28 (1953): 60-76.

Lefebvre, G. "Le médecins, étendue de leurs connaissances, pratique médicale, les prêtes de Sekhmet." Aesculape (October, 1955): 189-202.

Lefebvre, G. "Prêtres de Sekhmet." Archiv Orientalni 20 (1952): 57-64.

Meulenaere, H. de. "Arzt" [in French]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 1, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 455-59. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.

Viso, L. and Uriach, J. "The 'Guardians of the Anus' and Their Practice." International Journal of Colorectal Disease 10/4 (1995): 229-31.

Walle, B. van de. "Une famille de médicins de la XIXe dynastie." Revue d'Égyptologie 26 (1974): 123-24.

Weeks, K. R. "Medicine, Surgery and Public Health in Ancient Egypt." In Civiliations of the Ancient Near East, vol 3., ed. Jack M. Sasson et al., 1787-98. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.


Primary Sources: The Medical Papyri and Texts

Bardinet, T. Les papyrus médicaux de l'Égypte pharaonique: Traduction intégrale et commentaire. Penser la Médecine. Paris: Librarie Arthème Fayard, 1995.

Barns, J. W. B. Five Ramesseum Papyri. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.

Breasted, J. H. The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus. 2 vols. Oriental Institute Publications 3-4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930.

Chassinat, E. G. Un papyrus médical copte. Memoire de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 32. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1921.

Deines, H. von, Grapow, H. and Westendorf, W. Erläuterungen zur Übersetzung. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 4/1. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1958

Deines, H. von, Grapow, H and Westendorf, W. Übersetzung der medizinischen Texte. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 4/2. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1958

Ebbell, B. The Papyrus Ebers, The Greatest Egyptian Medical Document. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1937.

Ghalioungui, P. The Ebers Papyrus: A New English Translation, Commentaries and Glossaries. Cairo: Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, 1987.

Grapow, H. Die medizinischen Texte in hieroglyphischer Umschreibung autographiert. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 5. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1958

Grapow, H. Von den medizinischen Texten. Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter 2. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955.

Griffith, F. Ll. The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1898

Griffith, F. Ll. and Thompson, H. The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden. 3 Vols. London: H. Grevel, 1904.

Griffith, F. Ll. and Thompson, H. The Leyden Papyrus: An Egyptian Magical Book. New York: Dover Publications, 1974.

Iversen, E. Papyrus Carlsberg No. VIII with Some Remarks on the Egyptian Origin of Some Popular Birth Prognoses. Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser. Vol. 26, no. 5. København: E. Munksgaard, 1939.

Jonckheere, F. Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty. La Médecine Égyptienne. No. 2. Brussels: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Elisabeth, 1947.

Leitz, C. Magical and Medical Papyri of the New Kingdom. Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum 7. British Museum Press, 1999.

Meyer, M. and Smith, R., eds. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1994.

Reisner, G. A. The Hearst Medical Papyrus. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1905.

Reymond, E. A. E. From the Contents of the Libraries of the Suchos Temples in the Fayyum. Part 1, A Medical Book from Crocodilopolis: P. Vindob. D.6257. Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek 10. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 1976.

Riddle, J. M. "Egyptian Papyrus Sources." Chap. in Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, 66-73. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Sauneron, S. "Some Newly Unrolled Hieratic Papyri in the Wilbour Collection of the Brooklyn Museum." Brooklyn Museum Annual 8 (1966-1967): 98-102.

Sauneron, S. Un traité égyptien d'ophiologie: Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum No. 47.218.48 et 85. Bibliothèque Générale 11. Cairo: IFAO, 1989.

Sijpesteijn, P. J. Gynaecologische aspecten van de Papyrus Ebers. Amsterdam: Philips-Duphar, 1972.

Stevens, J. M. "Gynaecology from Ancient Egypt: The Papyrus Kahun: A Translation of the Oldest Treatise on Gynaecology that has Survived the Ancient World." The Medical Journal of Australia 21 (December 1975): 949-52.

Tait, W. J. "P. Carlsberg 230: Eleven Fragments from a Demotic Herbal." In The Carlsberg Papyri 1: Demotic Texts from the Collection, ed. P. J. Frandsen, 47-92. Carstan Niebuhr Institute Publications 15. Copenhagen: The Carstan Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Museum Tusculanem Press, 1991.

Tyldesley, J. Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt. London: Penguin Books, 1995.

Van Houten, T. The Edwin Smith Papyrus: I. The Surgical Management of Injuries." MASCA Journal 1/4 (1980): 99-101.

Van Houten, T. The Edwin Smith Papyrus: II. Surgical Management in Cases of Uncertain or Dubious Prognosis." MASCA Journal 1/6 (1980): 182-84.

Walker, R. E. "The Veterinary Papyrus of Kahun: A Revised Translation and Interpretation of the Ancient Egyptian Treatise Known as the Veterinary Papyrus of Kahun." Veterinary Record 76 (1964): 198-200.

Weeks, K. R. "Studies of Papyrus Ebers." Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte 58-59 (1976-1977; 1977-1978): 292-99.

Weems, R. J. "The Hebrew Women Are Not Like the Egyptian Women: The Ideology of Race, Gender and Sexual Reproduction in Exodus 1." In Ideological Criticism of Biblical Texts, ed. D. Jobling and T. Pippin. In Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism 59 (1992): 25-34.

Wente, E. Letters from Ancient Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

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Wreszinski, W. Der grosse medizinische Papyrus des Berliner Museums (Pap. Berl. 3038). Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1909.(Medical Texts and Papyri; Papyrus Berlin)

Wreszinski, W. Der Londoner medizinische papyrus (Brit. Museum Nr. 10059) und der Papyrus Hearst in Transkription, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1912.

Wreszinski, W. Der Papyrus Ebers. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1913.

Yahuda, A. S. "Medical and Anatomical Terms in the Pentateuch in Light of the Egyptian Medical Papyri." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2 (1947): 549-74.


Relations with Greek, Roman and Other Medicines

Barb, A. A. "Mystery, Myth and Magic." In The Legacy of Egypt, 2nd ed., ed. J. R. Harris, 138-69. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Bardinet, T. "Magie égyptienne et médicine grecque: Les amulettes gynecologiques greco-égyptiennes." Journal de Medicine de Strasbourg 20 (1989): 479-481.

Bernal, M. "Animadversions on the Origin of Western Science." Isis 83/4 (1992): 596-607.

Betz, H. D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation Including the Demotic Spells. Second edition. Volume One, Texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Bohak, G. Traditions of Magic in Late Antiquity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 1996.

Catonne, J. P. "L'hysterie hippocratique. [Hippocratic Concept of Hysteria]." Annales Médico-Psychologiques 150 (December 1992): 705-19.

Clarysse, W. "Some Greeks in Egypt." In Life in A Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond, ed. J. H. Johnson, 51-56. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51. Chicago: The Oriental Instiute, 1992.

Copenhaver, B. P. Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation with Notes and Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Diamantopoulos, T. Iatrike sten archaia Aigypto [in Greek]. Patra: [n.p.], 1994.

Friedlander, W. J. The Golden Wand of Medicine: A History of the Caduceus Symbol in Medicine. Contributions in Medical Studies 35. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Gazzaniga, V. and de Angelis, E. "L'oncologia ginecologia dai papiro egiziani ai testi ippocratici." Medicina nei Secoli 6 (1994): 117-38.

Ghalioungui, P. "A Comparison Between the Medical Plants Mentioned in Graeco-Roman and Ancient Egyptian Papyri." Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies 3 (1986): 9-16.

Ghalioungui, P. "The Relation of Pharaonic to Greek and Later Medicine." Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library 15 (1968): 96-107.

Harris, J. R. "Medicine." Chap. in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 112-37. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

Longrigg, J. Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians. London: Routledge, 1993.

Marganne, M.-H. "Links between Egyptian and Greek Medicine." Forum 3/5 (1993): 35-43.

Marganne, M.-H. "La médecine dans l'Égypte romaine: les sources et les méthodes." In Augstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, ed. W. Hasse, 37.3. Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 1995.

Nutton, V. "Galen and Egypt." In Galen und das hellenistische Erbe, Verhandlung des IV. internationale Galen-Symposiums, eds. J. Kollesch and D. Nickel, 11-31. Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beiheft 32, Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 1993.

Prioreschi, P. "Skull Trauma in Egyptian and Hippocratic Medicine." Gesnerus 50 (1993): 167-78.

Ratsch, C. Heilkrauter der Antike in Ägypten, Griechenland und Rom: Mythologie und Anwendung einst und heute. Diederichs Gelbe Reihe. Antike 115. München: E. Diederichs, 1995.

Saunders, J. B. and Saunders, C. M. The Transition from Ancient Egyptian to Greek Medicine. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1963.

Staden, H. von. Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Steuer, R. O. and Saunders, J. B. Ancient Egyptian and Cnidian Medicine, The Relationship of Their Aetiological Concepts of Disease. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959.

Van Minnen, P. "Medical Care in Late Antiquity." Clio Medica 27 (1995): 153-69.

Walker, C. "Rx--the Eye of Horus." Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 26/1 (January 1992): 102.


Religious and Magical Issues

Borghouts, J. F. Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts. NISABA 9. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978.

Borghouts, J. F. The Magical Texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348. In OMRO 51 (1970). Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Borghouts, J. F. "Magie" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 1137-51. Vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1979.

Borghouts, J. F. "Magical Practices among the Villagers." In Pharaoh's Workers: The Villagers of Deir el Medina, ed. Leonard H. Lesko, 119-30. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Borghouts, J. F. "Witchcraft, Magic and Divination in Ancient Egypt." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. Sasson, vol. 3, 1775-1786. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Clagett, M. Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Vol. 1, Knowledge and Order. Vol. 2, Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society,1989.

D'Auria, S., Lacovara, P. and Roehrig, C. H, eds. Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: MFA, 1988.

Daumas, F. "Le sanatorium de Denderah." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 56 (1957): 35-57.

Guilhou, N. "Un texte de guérison." Chronique d'Égypte 70 (1995): 52-64.

Hornung, E. "The Discovery of the Unconscious in Ancient Egypt." Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought 1986 (1986): 16-28.

Kákosy, L. "Ouroboros on Magical Healing Statues." In Hermes Aegyptiacus: Egyptological Studies for B. H. Stricker on His 85th Birthday, ed. T. DuQuesne, 123-29. Discussions in Egyptology Special No. 2. Oxford: DE Publications, 1995.

Kákosy, L. "Some Problems of the Magical Healing Statues." In La magia in Egitto ai tempi dei faraoni, ed. A. Roccati and A. Siliotti, 171-80. Milan: Rassegna Internazionale Cinematografia, Archeologica, Arte e Natura Libri, 1987.

Laskowska-Kusztal, E. Le sanctuaire ptolemaique de Deir el-Bahari. Deir el-Bahari. Vol. 3. Warsaw: PWN-Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, 1984.

Lesko, L. "Ancient Egyptian Cosmogonies and Cosmology." In Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths and Personal Practice, ed. B. E. Schafer, 88-122. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Milne, J. G. "The Sanatorium of Der-el-Bahri." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1 (1914): 96-98.

Mostafa, D. "Guérir dans l'Égypte ancienne: experience religieuse, rituel magique ou pratique médicale. Varia Aegyptiaca 9/1-2 (April/August 1993): 45-57.

Philips, A. K. "Observations on the Alleged New Kingdom Sanatorium at Deir el-Bahari." Göttinger Miszellen 89 (1986): 77-83.

Pinch, G. Magic in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1994.

Quirke, S. "Surviving Life: Protection of the Body." Chap. in Ancient Egyptian Religion, 105-39. London: British Museum Press, 1992.

Reiner, E. "Babylonian Birth Prognoses." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 72 (1982): 124-38.

Ritner, R. "Horus on the Crocodiles: A Juncture of Religion and Magic in Late Dynastic Egypt." In Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt, by J. P. Allen, J. Assmann. A. B. Lloyd, R. K. Ritner and D. P. Silverman, 103-16. Yale Egyptological Studies 3. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Ritner, R. K. "Magic in Medicine." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 2, ed. D. B. Redford, 326-329. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Ritner, R. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 54. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1993.

Ritner, R. "Religion vs. Magic. The Evidence of the Magical Statue Bases." In The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt: Studies Presented to László Kákosy by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, ed. U. Luft, 495-501. Studia Aegyptiaca 14. Budapest: Innova Press, 1992.

Roth, A. M. "Fingers, Stars, and the 'Opening of the Mouth': The Nature and Function of the ntrwj-Blades." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 79 (1993): 57-79.

Roth, A. M. "The pss-kf and the "Opening of the Mouth" Ceremony: A Ritual of Birth and Rebirth." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 78 (1992): 113-47.

Walker, J. "Egyptian Medicine and the Gods." Bulletin of the Australian Centre of Egyptology 4 (1993): 83-101.

Walker, J. "The Place of Magic in the Practice of Medicine in Ancient Egypt." Bulletin of the Australian Center of Egyptology 1 (1990): 85-95.

Zandee, J. "The Birth-giving Creator-god in Ancient Egypt." In Studies in Pharaonic Religion and Society in Honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths, ed. A. B. Lloyd, 169-85. Occasional Publications 8. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1992.


Sex and Sexuality

Androutsos, G. and Marketos, S. "La sexualité dans l'ancienne Égypte." Progrès en Urologie 4 (October, 1994): 715-25.

Van Dijk, Jac. "The Nocturnal Wanderings of King Neferkare." In Hommages à Jean Leclant. Volume 4, Varia, ed. Catherine Berger, Gisele Clerc and Nicolas Grimal, 387-394. Bibliothèque d'Etude, vol. 106. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994.

Jonckheere, F. "Subincisions et excision? Mutilations sexuelles pharaoniques?" Histoire de la Médecine: Revue Technique et Historique Destinée au Corps Médicale 1/9 (December 1951): 3-7.

Manniche, L. "Some Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Sexual Life." Acta Orientalia 38 (1977): 11-23.

Manniche, L. Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. New York and London: Kegan Paul International, 1987.

Montserrat, D. Sex and Society in Greco-Roman Egypt. New York and London: Kegan Paul International, 1996.

Omlin, J. A. Der Papyrus 55001 und seine satirisch-erotischen Zeichnungen und Inschriften. Catalogo. Serie 1: Monumenti e Testi 3. Turin: Edizione d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, 1973.

Parkinson, R. B. "'Homosexual' Desire and Middle Kingdom Literature." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 81 (1995): 57-76.


Surgery, Surgical Operations and Trepanation

Aldred, C. "A Possible Case of Amputation." Man 64 (1964): 58.

Bailey, E. "Circumcision in Ancient Egypt." Bulletin of the Australian Center of Egyptology 7 (1996): 15-28.

Brothwell, D. R. and Moeller-Christensen, V. "A Possible Case of Amputation Dated 2,000 B.C." Man 63 (1963): no. 244, pp. 192-94.

Chapman, P. H., M.D. "Case Seven of the Smith Surgical Papyrus: The Meaning of TP3W." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 29 (1992): 35-42.

Cunha, F. "The Early Art of Surgery." American Journal of Surgery 77/1 (1949): 134-36.

Cunha, F. "The Early Art of Surgery, II: More of the Ebers Papyrus." American Journal of Surgery 77/4 (1949): 540-42.

Cunha, F. "The Early Art of Surgery, III: The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus." American Journal of Surgery 77/6 (1949): 793-95.

Cunha, F. "The Early Art of Surgery, IV: The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus." American Journal of Surgery 78/1 (1949): 277-78.

Cunha, F. "The Early Art of Surgery, V: From Papyri to Manuscripts." American Journal of Surgery 78/4 (1949): 544-46.

Cunha, F. "The Early Art of Surgery, VI: Kahun Papyrus." American Journal of Surgery 79/3 (1940): 486.

Dzierzykray-Rogalski, T. "Trépanation d'un cräne trouvé dans une tombe d'époque tardive à Balat (Égypte)." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 86 (1986): 303-06.

Filer, J. Disease. Egyptian Bookshelf Series. London: British Museum, 1995.

Ghalioungui, P. "Algunas aspectos de la cirugia operatoria." Revista de la Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de la Medicina 9/23 (1961): 337-355.

Harer, W. B. "Peseshkef: The First Special-Purpose Surgical Instrument." Obstetrics and Gynecology 83 (1994): 1053-55.

Janot, F. "À la recherche des instruments médicaux dans l'Égypte ancienne." L'Information Dentaire 74 (September 24, 1992): 2792-2802.

Jonckheere, F. "À la recherche du chirurgien égyptien." Chronique d'Égypte 26 (1951): 28-45.

Jonckheere, F. "Le cautère est une invention pharaonique." La Vie Médicale 7/1 (January 1951): 3-5.

Lisowski, F. P. "Ägyptische Trepanationen." Homo: Zeitschrift für die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen Supplement 6 (1959): 147.

Lisowski, F. P. "Prehistoric and Early Historic Trepanation." In Diseases in Antiquity, ed. D. R. Brothwell and A. T. Sandison, 651-71. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1967.

Messiha, K. "Ancient Egyptian Surgical Instruments." Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies 3 (1986): 17-22.

Oakley, K. P., Brooke, W. M. A., Akester, A. L., and Brothwell, D. R. "Contributions on Trepanning or Trephining in Ancient and Modern Times." Man 133 (1959): 93-96.

Van Houten, T. The Edwin Smith Papyrus: I. The Surgical Management of Injuries." MASCA Journal 1/4 (1980): 99-101.

Van Houten, T. The Edwin Smith Papyrus: II. Surgical Management in Cases of Uncertain or Dubious Prognosis." MASCA Journal 1/6 (1980): 182-84.

Oakley, K. P., Brooke, W. M. A., Akester, A. L. and Brothwell, D. R. "Contributions on Trepanning or Trephining in Ancient and Modern Times." Man 133 (1959): 93-96.

Pahl, W. M. Altägyptische Schädelchirurgie: Untersuchungen zur Differentialdiagnose von Trepinationsdefekten und zur Realisierung entsprechender Eingriffe in einem elaboratierten prähippokratischen Medizinsystem. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1993.

Pahl, W. M. "Trepanation." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 6, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 756-57. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986.

Piccione, P. A. "The Md3.t, 'Peg,' in Ancient Egyptian." Serapis: The American Journal of Egyptology 7 (1981-1982): 75-86.

Rowling, J. T. "The Rise and Decline of Surgery in Dynastic Egypt." Antiquity 63 (1989): 312-19. Rowling, J. T. "Some Speculations on the Use and Decline of Surgery in Dynastic Egypt." In Science in Egyptology, ed. A. R. David, 399-410. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.

Sandison, A. T. "Chirurgie" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 1, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 747-50. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.


Urology and Circumcision

Androutsos, G. and Marketos, S. "La sexualité dans l'ancienne Égypte." Progrès en Urologie 4 (October, 1994): 715-25.

Badawy, A. The Tomb of Ny-hetep Ptah and the Tomb of 'Ankhm'ahor at Saqqara. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

Badr, M. M. "The History of Urology in Ancient Egypt. Journal of the lnternational College of Surgeons, Sect. l, 39 (1963): 404-13.

Bailey, E. "Circumcision in Ancient Egypt." Bulletin of the Australian Center of Egyptology 7 (1996): 15-28.

Bardis, P. D. "Circumcision in Ancient Egypt." Indian Journal of the History of Medicine 12/1 (1967): 22-23

Janssen, R. M. and Janssen, Jac. J. Growing Up in Ancient Egypt. London: The Rubicon Press, 1990.

Jeffreys, M. D. W. "Circumcision: Its Diffusion from Egypt among the Bantu." Criteria (Witwatersrand) 1 (1949): 73-84. Recapitulated in African Abstracts 1 (1950): 99, no. 314.

Jonckheere, F. "La circoncision des anciens Égyptiens." Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Science and Medicine 1 (1951): 212-34.

Jonckheere, F. "L'eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique." Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et Leur Applications 7 (1954): 139-55.

Jonckheere, F. "Quelques données paléoégyptiennes sur la castration." In Actes du VIIe Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences, Jérusalem, 4-12 Août 1953, ed. F. S. Bodenheimer, 377-83. Collection des Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences 8. Paris: Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, 1953.

Jonckheere, F. "Subincisions et excision? Mutilations sexuelles pharaoniques?" Histoire de la Médecine: Revue Technique et Historique Destinée au Corps Médicale 1/9 (December 1951): 3-7.

Kadesh, G. "Eunuchs in Ancient Egypt?" In Studies in Honor of John A. Wilson. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 35. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Miller, R. L., and Ritner, R. K. "Rwy.t, 'Radiating' Symptoms of Gallstone Disease in Ancient Egypt." Göttinger Miszellen 141 (1994): 71-76.

Morice, P., Josset, P. and Dubuisson, J. B. "Histoire de la stérilité dans l'antiquité. 1, La stérilité en Égypte: Recettes diagnostiques sur la stérilité et la grossesse en Égypte ancienne. [History of sterility in ancient times. I. Sterility in Egypt. Diagnostic recipes for sterility and pregnancy in ancient Egypt]." Contraception, Fertilité, Sexualité 23/6 (May-June, 1995): 423-27.

Nacey, J. and Delahunt, B. "The Evolution and Development of the Urinary Catheter." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 63 (October 1993): 815-19.

Roth, A. "Initiation: Phyle Membership and Circumcision." In Egyptian Phyles of the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization, 62-72. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 48. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1991.

Rowling, J. T. "Urology in Egypt." In Diseases in Antiquity, ed. D. R. Brothwell and A. T. Sandison, 532-37. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1967.

Sandison, A. T. "Eunuchen" [in English]. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 46-47. Vol. 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1977.

Sandison, A. T. and Wells, C. "Diseases of the Reproductive System." In Diseases in Antiquity, ed. D. R. Brothwell and A. T. Sandison, 498-520. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1967.

Störk, L. "Kastration." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 3, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, 354-55. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1979.

Yoyotte, J. "Les os et la semence masculine à propos d'une théorie physiologique égyptienne." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 61 (1962): 139-46.

Westendorf, W. "Beschneidung." In Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 1, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, 727-29. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975.

Wit, C. de. "La circoncision chez les anciens Égyptiens." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 99 (1972): 41-48.

Yahuda, A. S. "Medical and Anatomical Terms in the Pentateuch in Light of the Egyptian Medical Papyri." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2 (1947): 549-74.



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