Medicine Archive
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cedar is considered the most sacred tree in Native American beliefs. Cedar holds significant importance in Native American traditions as a ceremonial plant.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The application of advanced archaeological technology has provided new insights into the sophisticated medical instruments used by Roman surgeons 2,000 years ago. A
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, the black henbane plant was as fascinating as feared. Ancient physicians knew that when administered in appropriate quantities, this toxic flora
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When analyzing 2,500-year-old medical texts, scientists were surprised to discover dementia was hardly mentioned at all. Everything indicates memory loss was more or
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AncientPages.com - In 2020, a chance discovery near the small South African hamlet of Misgund in the Eastern Cape unearthed an unusual parcel – a gift to science.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Sican culture, also referred to as the Lambayeque culture lived in what is now the north coast of Peru between about 750
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It may be nothing than just pure coincidence, because pandemics have been around as long as humans, but it’s interesting to note a
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Civilizations
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures used plants to treat infections and diseases. Archaeological evidence indicates that the use of medicinal plants dates back to the Paleolithic age,
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians were familiar with many branches of science. There is solid evidence they possessed advanced astronomical knowledge, mastered mathematics, and applied their
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient Egyptian woman Merit Ptah is said to have been the first female physician and her accomplishments have inspired many women entering
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - There is little information about these ancient ivory manikins that have been a bit of medical mystery until now. Ancient ivory manikins are
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When did people in Siberia perform sophisticated ancient cranial surgery? There is evidence advanced medical practices were conducted in Siberia a very long
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Modern science is catching up with ancient knowledge and we’re slowly rediscovering what our ancestors knew ages ago. Big pharma companies may not always
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Ashvins are the twin Vedic gods of medicine and healing. They are believed to be associated with the predawn light appearing in the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - What if a single musical note could mean the difference between life and death? A new sensor based on a 3,000-year-old African musical instrument can be used
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A showdown with religious dogmas, an early scientific approach, and diligent use of plants were some of the ingredients of ancient medicine. Welcome aboard a historic journey
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered 400-year-old documents that reveal Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th-century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce opium for medical purposes. A description of
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Archaeology
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A new study of Sumerian clay tablets has provided scientists with valuable information about medicine in Mesopotamia. As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, medicine
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians valued beer and used it not only to get drunk but as medicine and payment. Beer was of great importance in ancient Egyptian society
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Being in love is considered a normal condition today, but this was not the case not so long ago. During the Middle Ages,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Black Death is one of the most devastating plagues in human history. The Black Death, started in the Gobi Desert as a minor disease known as Yersinia
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The snake has been used as a symbol by pharmacies and doctors for a very long time. The serpent is a symbol of medicine
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Medicine has a long history in the Middle and Near East. The earliest known medical records go back to the ancient Mesopotamia and begin
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Was it really necessary for great physician Hippocrates to eat earwax? Why did he do it? Hippocrates of Kos (c 360-375 BC) was known as the Father
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Thalia Lightbringer - AncientPages.com - This Cherokee tale is interesting because it relates a philosophy of life which was practiced by many Native Americans. They used every part of
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut knew how deadly her flacon was, she wouldn’t have touched it. But she did and this may have
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Medieval Norse-Icelandic sagas are filled with tales of mead-drinking Norse Gods and beautiful Valkyries serving refreshments to fallen warriors in Valhalla. Valhalla -
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Algonquin people were the widespread Native American nation when French and English settlers arrived in North America. In those days, they inhabited
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The modern world likes to take credit for many technological inventions, but we fail to mention that often many of these “discoveries” are nothing
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - Many discoveries of modern science and technology were known to the people of ancient India. Skilled ancient doctors conducted complicated surgeries like fractures, cesareans, removing of urinary
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