Here are seven medicinal plant species that have proved their worth in gold and may well have more to give to the future of ...

In his ninth-century poem Ya Sa’eli, Ibn Al Rumi describes some of his favourite foods and how he likes to enjoy them. The ...

For example, aloe vera was advocated for in an Egyptian scroll known as the Ebers Papyrus. As a result, the integration of different cultures into medicine would allow it to progress further than ...

Antidotes are critical in toxicology, offering therapeutic solutions to poisoning by neutralizing toxins and enhancing the ...

A symbol of health and medicine around the world to this day ... which is based on a technique used to remove parasitic worms that is found in the Ebers Papyrus , an ancient Egyptian medical document ...

Missing Parts of the Papyrus The papyrus has helped scholars better understand ancient Egyptians’ understanding and practice of medicine. However, there are missing parts of the scroll and ongoing ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

A new papyrus dating back over 1,880 years is giving archaeologists new insight into the Roman world’s legal system. Academics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and ...

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be starting to reveal their secrets. UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to ...