Themes and Topics
Maps of Egypt
Land and Environment
Creation Mythology
Language and Writing
Egyptian Society and Social Structure
Egyptian History: New Kingdom (Incl. Amarna Period)
Egyptian History: Post-New Kingdom
Amulets
Artistic Depictions (Medical Conditions, Physicians, etc.)
Deities and Healing Gods and Goddesses
Greek Connections
Healing Statues and Stelae
Jars, Flasks, Pots, etc.
Palaeopathology and Mummies
Papyri and Medical Texts
Prescriptions, Pharmacology, Drugs and Pharmacopoeia
Reconstructions and Modern Paintings
Surgical Tools, Medical and Magical Implements
Temples, Sanatoria and Archaeological Sites
Trepanation, Surgery, etc.
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MAPS OF EGYPT
- Map: Ancient Egypt (black & white)
- Map of Egypt (color)
- Map of Egypt (black & white--for printing)
- Map of Modern Egypt (CIA)
- Reconstruction: Egyptian world view (color)
- Map: Egyptian Delta in the Middle Kingdom
- Map: Ancient Nubia
- Map: Second Intermediate Period Political Kingdoms along the Nile River
- Map: Egyptian Empire, New Kingdom
LAND AND ENVIRONMENT
- Drawing: Topographical Cross-section of the Nile
- Photo: Pyramid of Medum and the Edge of the Cultivation
- Photo (Quicktime): West Bank of Thebes
- Photo: Panorama of West Bank of Thebes
- Schematic Plan: Overview of Basin irrigation system: basins and canals (color)
- Animation: Basin System at Work (P. Piccione)
CEATION MYTHOLOGY
- Shabaka Stone: Memphite Theology
- Photo: Wall Painting of Ra in boat (tomb of Sennedjem)
- Statuette of Tutankhamun as Nefertem
- Statuette of Ptah (Tutankhamun)
LANGUAGE AND WRITING
- Chart: Afro-Asiatic Languages
- Rosetta Stone, Ptolemy IV Epiphanes, 196 BC
EGYPTIAN SOCIETY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
- Diagram: Structure of Egyptian society: King as focus of society, around whom orbit the social classes
EGYPTIAN HISTORY: NEW KINGDOM (INCL. AMARNA PERIOD)
- Plan: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
- Drawing: Reconstruction of Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak (color)
- Photo: First Pylon-gateway of the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
- Photo: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak from above First Court
- Photo: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak from Sacred Lake
EGYPTIAN HISTORY: POST-NEW KINGDOM
- Plan of the city of ancient Alexandria (color)
- Plan of the city of modern Alexandria superimposed on ancient city-plan (color)
- Alexandria Library reference room (fanciful reconstruction) (color)
- Alexandria Library: modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina (color)
- Reconstruction of the Pharos Lighthouse of ancient Alexandria (painting & model)
- Mini-copy of Pharos Lighthouse at Taposiris Magna (color)
Amulets
- Amulets, Assorted (photo)
- Apotropaic Wand or Knife (University Museum)
- Apotropaic Wand or Knife (Brussels)
- Birthing Brick of Renseneb, Abydos, Middle Kingdom (photo)
- "2-Finger" Birthing Amulet, British Museum (photo)
- Sun-god (Celestial Divinity) Amulet: Udjat-eye and Moon, Tomb of Tutankhamun, from Pectoral Necklace, Gold and Lapis (Cairo Museum)
- Tiyt-Amulet of Isis (drawing)
- Udjat-eye Amulet, Faience (photo)
- Udjat-eye, Tomb of Tutankhamun, from Necklace, Gold and Lapis (Cairo Museum)
Artistic Depictions (Medical Conditions, Physicians, etc.)
- Old Kingdom Relief: Hesyre (1st Physician), Wood Panel, Saqqara, Dynasty 3 (photo)
- Old Kingdom Relief: Hesyre, Saqqara, Dynasty 3 (drawing)
- Old Kingdom Relief: Peseshet Stela, Female Physician (drawing)
- Old Kingdom Relief: Physician Irenakhty in tomb of Ptahhotep (photo)
- Old Kingdom Relief: Physician Iyiry in tomb of Sabu (photo)
- Old Kingdom Relief: Physician Wennenefer Oversees Cattle Butchery (drawing)
- Old Kingdom Reliefs: Circumcision, Shaving Genitalia, and Grooming Scenes (drawing)
- Old and New Kingdom Reliefs: Circumcision and Personal Grooming Scenes (drawing)
- Old Kingdom Statuary: Dwarf Khnumhotep (photo)
- Club-foot Stela (Stela of Roma) (drawing)
- Club-foot Stela (Stela of Roma)–detail (photo)
- Old Kingdom Relief: Famine Victims, Unas Pyramid Causeway, Old Kingdom (drawing)
- Old Kingdom Statuary: Famine Victims (photo)
- Theban tomb Scene: Physician Reduces Dislocated Shoulder(?) (drawing)
- Theban tomb Scene: Physician Treats or Paints Eye of Catafalque Worker (drawing)
- Theban tomb Scene: Banquet, Servant Girl Pours Extract (of Water Lily?) into Wine (drawing)
Deities and Healing Gods and Goddesses
- Amun, Gold Statue, New Kingdom (photo)
- Amun, Granite Statue, New Kingdom (photo)
- Sakhmet, Assorted Statues, New Kingdom, British Museum (photo)
- Bes (deity), glazed ceramic jar, Late Period (photo)
- Winged Isis, wall scene, tomb of Sety I (photo)
- Hathor or Isis, Seated Statue (photo)
- Isis Nursing Horus, Statue (Late Period) (photo)
- Imhotep Statuette, Bronze, Late Period (photo)
- Ma'at, Statue and Relief [composite] (photo)
- Ptah Statue, Tomb of Tutankhamun (Cairo Museum)
- Ra in Solar Bark, Tomb of Sennedjem (photo)
- Thoth as Baboon Statuette, Bronze (photo)
Greek Connections
- Alexandria: Modern (map)
- Alexandria: Ancient (map)
- Alexandria Library reference room (fanciful reconstruction) (color)
- Alexandria Library: modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina (color)
- Reconstruction of the Pharos Lighthouse of ancient Alexandria (color)
- Mini-copy of Pharos Lighthouse at Taposiris Magna (color)
- Asclepius Statue (Rhodes Museum)
- Asclepieion of Cos (photo)
- Asclepieion of Cos: Incubating Healing Dreams (reconstructed painting)
- Map of Eastern Mediterranean, Hellenistic Era
Healing Statues and Stelae
- Cippus of Horus (drawing)
- Healing Statue of Djedhor with Cippus of Horus (Louvre Museum)
- Metternich Stela [Cippus of Horus] (photo)
- Metternich Stela: Detail of Horus (photo)
Jars, Flasks, Pots, etc.
- Milk Jar for Nursing Mother (British Museum) (photo)
- Milk Jar of Pregnant Mother (British Museum) (photo)
- Opium Juglets(?), Cypriote and Capsules of Papaver Somniferum (photo)
- Opium Juglets(?), Three [3]: Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom (photo)
- Water Lily Oil Lamp, Tutankhamun's Tomb, New Kingdom (photo)
- Theban tomb Scene: Banquet, Servant Girl Pours Extract (of Water Lily?) into Wine (drawing)
Palaeopathology and Mummies
- Autopsy in the Museum of Bulaq, 19th century (painting)
- Schistosomiasis Liver Fluke Histology (photos)
- Schistosomiasis Liver Fluke Life Cycle (drawing)
- Mummy of Ramesses II, Cairo Museum (photo)
- Mummy of Unidentified Woman, KV 60 (photo)
- Mummy of Seqenenre, Battered Head, Cairo Museum (photo)
- Predynastic Burial Deposit with Unmummified Corpse, Oriental Institute Museum (photo)
- Predynastic Skull, Hierakonpolis, semicircular fracture, blunt force trauma (photo)
- Skeleton and Coffin: Infant with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (photo)
Papyri and Medical Texts
- Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (New York Historical Society) (photo)
- Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus–detail (photo)
- London Medical Papyrus, British Museum (photo)
Reconstructions and Modern Paintings
- Autopsy in the Museum of Bulaq, 19th century (painting)
- Neferure Dying (painting by H. M. Herget)
- Physician and Patient: Reconstruction of Papyrus Edwin Smith, Case 7 (painting by H. M. Herget)
Prescriptions, Pharmacology, Drugs and Pharmacopoeia
- Milk Jar for Nursing Mother (British Museum) (photo)
- Milk Jar of Pregnant Mother (British Museum) (photo)
- Opium Juglets(?), Cypriote and Capsules of Papaver Somniferum (photo)
- Opium Juglets(?), Three [3]: Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom (photo)
- Egyptian Water Lilies (Nymphaea Cerulaea): Blue and White Lilies (photo)
- Lotus vs. Water Lily (Nymphaea Lotus & Nymphaea Cerulaea) (photo)
- Drawing: Servant girl pouring extract of water lily(?) into wine cup (Theban tomb wall scene)
Surgical Tools, Medical and Magical Implements
- Apotropaic Wand or Knife (University Museum)
- Apotropaic Wand or Knife (Brussels)
- Birthing Brick of Renseneb, Abydos, Middle Kingdom (photo)
- Birthing Procedures: Hieroglyphs and Birthbrick (drawing and photo)
- Prosthetic Big Toe and Mummified Foot (Cairo Museum) (photo)
- Prosthetic Big Toes: Comparison (British Museum and Cairo Museum) (photo)
- Pesesh-kef Knife, Obstetrical and Ritualistic (Cairo Museum) (photo)
- Surgical Instrument: Bronze Scalpel or Razor (British Museum) (photo)
- Surgical Instrument: Bronze Razor (Cairo Museum) (photo)
- Surgical Instruments: Assorted Scalpels and Knives, Pharaonic and Roman (drawing)
- Surgical Instruments: Kom Ombo Temple, Relief (Roman Period)
- Surgical Instruments: Kom Ombo Temple, Composite: Photo and Drawing
- Surgical Instruments: Piercers, Forceps, Trephine (trępanon), and Needles (drawing)
- Surgical Instruments: Bow Drills for Trepination (trępanon), Greek (drawing)
- Surgical Instruments: Crown Drills for Trepination (príon), Greek (photo)
Temples, Sanatoria and Archaeological Sites
- Dendera Temple of Hathor & Sanatorium, satellite view (photo)
- Dendera Temple Sanatorium, overview today (photo)
- Dendera Temple Sanatorium, overview at time of excavation (photo)
- Dendera Temple Sanatorium, overview with sleeping chambers today (photo)
- Dendera Temple Sanatorium, remains of bathing tubs today (photo)
- Dendera Temple Sanatorium, remains of bathing tubs at time of excavation (photo)
- Dendera Temple Sanatorium, plan: sleep chambers and bathing court (Greek and Roman Period)
- Dendera Temple Sanatorium, pedestal for Hathor-statue during excavation (photo)
- Karnak Temple, Ritual Bathhouse Complex (Ptolemaic): circular cubicles, bathtubs and cistern
- Karnak Temple, Ritual Bathhouse (Ptolemaic): ring of "sitzbath"-cubicles [cleansing for gynaecological and urological issues, hemhorroids, vaginal infections, preganacy issues, dream incubation(?), etc.] + bathtub (photo)
- Athribis (Banha), Ritual Bathhouse (Ptolemaic): ring of "sitzbath"-cubicles, destroyed (photo)
- Athribis (Banha), Ritual Bathhouse (Ptolemaic): remains of 2 "sitzbath"-cubicles (photo)
- Composite Image: statue of pregnant woman bathing (Athribis) + Karnak cubicles (photo)
- Athribis (Banha), Ritual Bathhouse (Ptolemaic): rectangular bathtubs (photo)
- Athribis (Banha), Ritual Bathhouse (Ptolemaic): watertank (photo)
- Deir el-Bahari Temple, From Above (photo)
- Deir el-Bahari Temple, From Below (photo)
- House of Life, el-Amarna (photo)
- House of Life, el-Amarna, Plan (drawing)
- Karnak Temple Plan (drawing)
- Karnak Temple Reconstruction (drawing)
- Karnak Temple, First Court Looking Eastward (photo)
- Karnak Temple, Interior Looking Northwestward (photo)
- Kom Ombo Temple Plan (drawing)
- Kom Ombo Temple Reconstruction (drawing)
- Kom Ombo Temple, (so-called) Surgical Instruments, relief (Roman Period)
- Kom Ombo Temple, (so-called) Surgical Instruments, composite: photo & drawing
Trepanation, Surgery, etc.
- Trepanation (Trephination) of the Skull: Assorted Methods (drawing)
- Trepanned Skull(?), broken skull, possibly scored for trepanation, Hierakonpolis, Predynastic Period (photo)
- Trepanned Skull(?), Egyptian–detail of trepanation defect (photo)
- Trepanned Skull, Saqqara, Late Period (photo)
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