Key facts
- Size
- length: c. 20 meters
- Created
- c. 1550 BCE
- Discovered
- Egypt
- Present location
- Leipzig , Saxony , Germany
- Language
- Hieratic Egyptian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- scroll
- Named after
- Georg Ebers
- Owned by
- Leipzig University Library
- Country of origin
- Ancient Egypt
- Main subject
- medicine
- Material used
- papyrus
- Location
- Leipzig University Library
- Image
- Ebers7766.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ebers Papyrus
- language of work or name
- Late Egyptian
- inception
- 1600-00-00
- writing system
- Egyptian hieratic
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to c. 1550 BCE (the late Second Intermediate Period or early New Kingdom). Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of Ancient Egypt, it was sold by Mohareb Todros to the German Egyptologist Georg Ebers at Luxor in the winter of 1873–1874. It is currently kept at the Leipzig University Library in Germany.
Manuscript
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ebers Papyrus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.