Papyrus

Influenced by the rise of romantic nationalism, the Grimm brothers published a collection of German fairy tales in the 1812 as an effort to preserve German folk tradition. Hidden within the text of each fairy tales were attitudes toward society. This included religion, which was a fundamental aspect of German culture. The Catholic Church gained power through their large membership throughout Germany and Europe. It became so powerful that the Catholic clergy were wealthy and corrupt. Eventually,…

The earliest known mention of magic as a performing art was in the ancient Egyptian text The Westcar Papyrus, dating all the way to 2700 B.C. For a long time, displays of magic were thought of as witchcraft. The practice of witchcraft had been considered to be against the church, and witches were said to be evil, having made pacts with the devil (Purdy)…

French immigrant, Claude Bourgela, who established the first practice of veterinary medicine in the United States one hundred years years later (“Veterinarians”). There are speculations of the existence of veterinary medicine centuries ago based on papyrus scrolls that discussed treating animals with herbs (Ross). When it first started, veterinary medicine was primarily used to help work animals such as horses, mules, and oxen fit enough to do their job. Soon that evolved to farm animals, and…

Complications of open surgical tracheostomy and their management-our experience Introduction Tracheostomy is the surgical procedure to create an artificial opening in the trachea to bypass the obstructed airway above it. History reveals that it is an oldest surgical procedure dating back 3600 B.C.E. in Egypt(1). It has under gone numerous modifications during the past millennia. The first elective tracheostomy was done in AD 100 by Asclepiad’s of Bithynia and the described by Galen in AD131(2)…

The story of Enuma Elish is inscribed on seven cuneiform tablets, recovered by a collector named AH Layard in Iraq (Matthews and Benjamin). This story has some parallel tales told in the Old Testament, such as Genesis, Exodus and the Psalms. This story presents the father and mother, Apsu and Tiamat, who represent saltwater and freshwater who were present before the creation of the universe. This story provides a description of a series of gods that were created: “When on high ... No heaven HAD…

Kiya was a pharaoh, not just any pharaoh, but a pharaoh of the whole Egyptian empire, and at such a young age. Kiya was given her status at the age of 14, and she’d ruled since then for nearly a decade, leaving her at 23. Kiya was renown in her kingdom as a symbol of beauty, a symbol of the female form in its most pure. Her people would come from miles around, on foot or by animals back just to a get a distant view of her sitting on a throne or waving from her balcony window. She had princes…

Topic Outline Comparative Study between Synthetic Medicines and Natural Medicines in Relieving Common Cold THESIS: Natural medicines are more reliable in relieving common cold than synthetic medicines because, unlike synthetic medicines, they have less or even no side effects to one’s body and they also boost the immune system rather than suppressing the symptoms. INTRODUCTION I. Common Cold A. Definition B. Cause C. Symptoms II. Relievers A. Synthetic medicines B. Natural medicines III. Natural…

policies implemented in eradicating the little monster. INCIDENT REPORT AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION Dracunculiasis is a disease that has ravaged human population for decades; the presence of disease is documented in the Egyptian Medical Ebers Papyrus of herbal knowledge around 1550BC when a calcified worm was detected on an Egyptian mummy (Sandle, 2014). According to Sattenspiel (2000), the ancient existence of dracunculiasis is said to be the origin of the medical symbol, the rod of…

1 Six guardian and beneficent snakes at Edfu temple Ahmed KhalafAllah Safina∗ The scope of this paper is limited to the discussion of some lesser known aspects of six snakes at Edfu temple1. I aim with this paper to develop the understanding of these elusive beings through the examination of their nature, roles, names, and epithets. These snakes originally belonged to subordinate deities2 that had a beneficial and protective role with regard to Horus of Behdety…

At about twenty centuries ago there was an amazing discovery about right angled triangles: “In a right angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of squares of the other two sides.” It is called Pythagoras Theorem and can be written in one short equation: a²+b²=c² where c is the longest side of triangle and a and b are the other two sides. Pythagoras was born in the island of Samos in 570 BC in Greek in the eastern Agean. He was the son of Mnesarchus and his mother's name…