EPISODE · Oct 17, 2026 · 19 MIN
The first doctors
from AfroMythos: Tellings
Around 1600 BC, a scribe in Thebes copied a book of surgery: 48 injuries, from the head down, each with a verdict. Follow Egypt’s doctors from the wound to the pulse, the tooth and the birth, and follow their books out of Luxor into the world. Read it with pictures and sources: https://afromythos.com/empires/first-doctors
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