THE HEALING OF ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

Step Inside 3,500 Years of Ancient Egyptian Medicine

Discover the remedies, natural ingredients, medical practices, and healing knowledge preserved in the Ebers Papyrus brought together in a richly illustrated modern reference.

323 Pages • 150 Ancient Remedies • 89 Natural Ingredients

By Wafik Mahmoud Hamza

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What Did an Ancient Egyptian Physician Know 3,500 Years Ago?

Long before modern hospitals, pharmacies, or medical textbooks, Ancient Egyptian physicians were recording observations, ingredients, preparations, and treatments.

Much of that remarkable knowledge survives in the Ebers Papyrus, one of the most important surviving medical texts from the ancient world.

The Healing of Ancient Egyptians takes readers inside this extraordinary record and presents its world in a clear, visual, and accessible format.

This isn't simply a book about Ancient Egypt.

It's a journey into how one of history's great civilizations understood the human body, illness, healing, and the natural world.

3,500+

Years of History

323

Pages

150

Ancient Remedies

Natural Ingredients

877

Historical Paragraphs

Meter Papyrus Scroll

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Why This Book Matters

For over 3,500 years, the Ebers Papyrus has been one of the world's greatest surviving medical documents.

Its ancient remedies, herbal ingredients, and healing knowledge have fascinated historians, archaeologists, physicians, and researchers for generations.

This book transforms that remarkable history into a modern, easy-to-understand reference filled with illustrations, explanations, and historical context.

Whether you're passionate about Ancient Egypt, natural medicine, or world history, this book brings one of civilization's greatest treasures to life.

Opening

The Original Papyrus 10 pages

The story of the scroll itself where it was found, who bought it, how it was translated, and where it rests today

Six parts, built to be used

Organised so you can read it front to back, or open it at a single ingredient and stop there.

Part I

The World of Egyptian Medicine 5 chapters

A timeline of Egyptian medicine, the eight gods of healing, the swnw physicians and their temple schools, the instruments they used, and the land their ingredients came from.

Chapters I–VI

The Ingredient Encyclopedia 89 entries

Every natural substance in the papyrus animal products, herbs, trees and resins, oils, fruits and grains, minerals each with a photograph, its Egyptian name, its uses, its preparation, and what became of it since.

Part VII

Ancient Egyptian Prescriptions 150 remedies

Nineteen sections from wounds and burns to women's medicine, the eyes, the heart, and the physician's own craft. Each remedy gives what it heals, its ingredients, how to make it and how to take it.

Part VIII

The Physician's Specialties 5 sections

Surgery, dentistry, pregnancy and childbirth, veterinary medicine and a chapter comparing the ancient remedies with the medicine that came after them.

Reference

Index, cross-reference, glossary 4 sections

Every ingredient cross-referenced to the remedies that use it, plus a glossary of Egyptian terms and a reading list of the scholarly translations.

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About the Author

WAFIK MAHMOUD HAMZA
Author • Researcher • Entrepreneur

Author Contact:
books@trik--trak.com

About the Author:

Wafik Mahmoud Hamza is an Egyptian entrepreneur, researcher, and author with a lifelong interest in the knowledge, achievements, and enduring legacy of Ancient Egypt.

Through extensive research and the study of historical sources, he explores how ancient civilizations approached medicine, natural remedies, daily life, innovation, and the relationship between people and their environment.

In The Healing of Ancient Egyptians, Hamza brings together material inspired by the Ebers Papyrus and other historical sources, presenting Ancient Egyptian medical knowledge in an accessible and visually engaging form for modern readers.

His broader publishing work aims to preserve remarkable historical texts and ideas and introduce them to a new generation of readers around the world.