Venom expert, chief palace physician, chief dentist, and director of medicinal plants were also likely on his resume.

A tomb recently unearthed in Egypt shows that medicine and magic were once equally revered, and expertise in both earned a long-dead physician to the pharaohs a place of honor among the ancient ...

The vast burial ground served the city of Memphis - ancient Egypt's capital for 2,000 years. Scarabs also held religious significance and could symbolise the sun god, Ra. Mostafa Waziri ...