Egypt's Endless Elegance

From a purely emotional point of view, one could certainly say from today's perspective that the topic of work safety was not exactly...

When we imagine ancient Egyptian society with its administrators and kings of whom we know so much, we tend to overlook the "little...

Who else but Goethe could have uttered such a meaningful sentence... However, history proves him right, for after all we know, wine as a...

By now we have gained a comprehensive picture of the thematic diversity that ancient Egyptian medicine has to offer. For me personally,...

Is it Christmas already? Not quite yet, we still have some days to go, and yet today we are devoting ourselves to a topic closely...

Medicine is not something that would only benefit humans. If you ask children (especially girls) what profession they want to have when...

Every physician today can tell you a thing or two about it: Without anatomy and knowledge about the structure of the body, there would be...

This is how Getafix speaks when, back in the Gaulish homeland, he recounts his experiences with Asterix in Egypt with Cleopatra (she is...

Even before my "pharmacy career" and long before Egyptology, I was enrolled in dentistry for a few semesters. Blessed with insensitive...

In the blog post "She-Doctor?!" I reported that we only have more detailed information about the lives of very few ancient Egyptian...

Writing an article about epidemics in 2021 will probably only force a weary smile with most readers. After the unexpected revival of...

„Your food shall be your remedy.“ These words are (probably incorrectly) ascribed to the great ancient physician Hippocrates (around...

With some parts of the body you only notice that they are important when you no longer have them. This is especially true of the big toe....

Egypt has always been a nerve-wracking place for people with a negligible love of reptiles. Scorpions, snakes, crocodiles ... all kinds...

In the middle of the 18th century (AD!) something hitherto unheard of happened in Germany: A woman, Dorothea Erxleben, received her...

An article about opium poppy and opium in medical and pharmacological textbooks usually begins like this: "Even the Egyptians knew and...

Hair care was a big issue with the Egyptians. We know from paintings and statues that not only women, but also men wore complicated...

The art of medicine would of course be worthless, if there was no one who practised it. While medical texts tell us nothing about the...