Brooklyn Papyrus
Papiro de Brooklyn
- Date
- 1889 · confidence medium
- Place
- Thebes, Egypt
- Credited to
- Charles Edwin Wilbour
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Ancient Egyptian medical papyrus focused on disease and snakebite, one of the oldest surviving medical texts, dated to around 450 BC; acquired by Charles Edwin Wilbour and held today at the Brooklyn Museum.
What it led to
- Modern study of ancient Egyptian medicine and pharmacology
- Comparison with other medical papyri such as Ebers and Edwin Smith
- Advances in the knowledge of ancient Egyptian ophiology