Imhotep: the Vizier and Physician of King Zoser and afterwards the Egyptain God of Medicine. By Dr. Jamieson B. Hurry. Pp. xvi + 118 + plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1926.) 7s. 6d. net.

How Imhotep gave us medicine. By Roger Highfield, Science Editor 10 May 2007 • 2:01pm . ... 2648BC), who designed the pyramids at Saqqara and was elevated to become the god of healing. ...

The Imhotep Museum at the Saqqara Necropolis opened to the public ... he became deified as the god of medicine in ancient Egypt. Imhotep’s medical writings and teachings influenced generations ...

Fans of adventure films should be familiar with the name Imhotep. He's the ancient Egyptian raised from the dead in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Far from being the crazed killer portrayed in ...

Later generations revered Imhotep as a sage and a scribe, one of the highest honours a person could be paid in Ancient Egypt. He eventually became linked with the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius ...

But behind the king’s monument was a great architect, named Imhotep. He was the chief minister to Djoser and left behind a legacy. If the name sounds familiar, it may be because the architect become ...

But the sites were also home to a few intriguing bronze statues, including a bull, an Egyptian figurine with an inscription in hieroglyphics reading, “I am Imhotep the god of medicine” and ...

The Egyptians - not the ancient Greeks - were the true fathers of medicine, according to a study that pushes back the origins by at least a millennium. Scientists examining documents dating back ...