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€279.00$361.00
This comprehensive survey work on Egyptian Medicine by one of its foremost scholars deals with literary all aspects of this fascinating subject. All periods from the beginnings of pharaonic Egypt until the Greek-Roman times are taken into account. All sources that reveal knowledge on the subject ...
€193.00$250.00
This volume presents the edition and translation of first-millennium BC Babylonian omens derived from the appearance and movements of the planet Jupiter. David Pingree’s introduction and astronomical commentary shows the extent of the Babylonian scholars’ knowledge of astronomical phenomena.
€202.00$262.00
This book, which relies on the treatise of the Nabatean Agriculture, offers a good deal of information relating to ecology, economy and agro-technics that is essential to the understanding of the working and development of the agricultural economy of ancient Mesopotamia.
€97.00$126.00
A cross-disciplinary approach suggesting that the origin of ancient Egyptian medicine began with the domestication of cattle in Africa and the attempt to control disease. With the sacrifice of these animals, the Egyptians began to understand anatomy and physiology, which they then applied to humans.
