History of ENT archive for July 2026

Images showing detail from Ebers Papyrus at Leipzig with arrows showing ideograms for ‘deafness’.

The (Ancient Egyptian) ear that hears badly: otology in Ancient Egypt 1500 BC

3 July 2026 | | ENTA - Otology

The Ebers Papyrus was written around 1500 years before the birth of Christ, and is arguably the most complete and most beautiful of the medical texts to have survived from ancient Egypt. It was purchased from a Coptic antiquarian in...