"It's cool. Three thousand years ago, there was some guy in Egypt that was likely putting the same ingredients into a pot and boiling it with the hope of making the same thing." When Dylan McDonnell ...

Abortion is a hot-button issue in many countries, but evidence that it was common in ancient times exists in Egyptian papyrus, Greek plays, Roman coins and more.

Diabetes has been a well-known condition since ancient times, described 1500 years before Christ was born, in the Egyptian medical text the Ebers papyrus. Modern doctors thought they knew how it ...

An Egyptian manuscript called the Ebers Papyrus directs women on how to mix dates, acacia and honey into a paste, smear it over wool and use it as a pessary to prevent conception 1700s Casanova ...

Famous papyri include the Ebers Papyrus, which documents ancient Egyptian medical practices and is considered the world’s best-preserved and most extensive example.

According to The Ebers Papyrus (a medical script from about 1550 BCE), this Egyptian remedy called for mixing the fat of a hippo with some crocodile, tomcat, snake, and ibex fat.