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...writing, cross-legged, the papyrus on their knees, the pen-box clutched in their arm. It's almost the everyday texture of life that comes out of these paintings so effectively. © The Open University and its licensor...Week 4 Nebamun the man and his tomb: 3.1 A hierarchical society - Egyptian society, like its most famous monuments (and like virtually all pre-modern...

...write a great deal about how the sick were cared for by doctors and in hospitals, in the past (as nowadays) minor complaints were diagnosed and treated at home, almost entirely without the help of medical professionals, using special diets and home-made or bought-in remedies. As with preserving health, poor families had relatively few resources for treatment. They might...