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The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt

Allen, James P., with an essay by David T. Mininberg, M.D. (2005)

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This exhibition explores a long-neglected area of Egyptian art—works associated with protection and healing, providing a new perspective on some sixty-five of the most beautiful and intriguing works from the Museum's renowned collection. The centerpiece is the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus—the sole borrowed work in the exhibition—which is on loan from the New York Academy of Medicine. This manuscript, dating from the Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1650–1550 B.C.), is one of only two complete medical texts from ancient Egypt. Rarely seen even by Egyptologists, the manuscript's presentation at the Metropolitan represents its first public display in more than half a century....