Ancient Egyptian medicine, a fascinating modernity

Our knowledge about ancient Egyptian medicine (throughout more than three m illennia) comes from some papyri, as those of Ebers and Smith, thousands of mummies or skeletons and multiple temples and tumbs decorations. Doctors w ere initially priests and embalmers which explain their good level in anato my. The most famous of all, Imhotep, who was also architect and minister, b ecame a god of medicine. First hospitals developed from temples, Modem inve stigation tools are useful for studying on human remains the most prevalent diseases at these times which are comparable with our current medical prob lems. An increasing number of scientific data, which some examples are repo rted herein, argue in favor of a fascinating level of advancement of ancien t Egyptian medicine in the field of diagnosis and therapy.