Snake Identification in the Ancient Egyptian Brooklyn Medical Papyrus. A New Study of the Twenty-Four Extant Registers of the 'Snakebite Papyrus', Hardback/Gordon W. Schuett

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, the first-known treatise on snakebites from antiquity. Publisher: Lockwood Press Author(s): Gordon W. Schuett Illustration(s): Illd in colour and b&w Number of pages: 212 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 177 x 252 x 17 Cover type: Hardback