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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love how the back wall is decorated like an apothecary shop. Digging the green text at the top.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The doctor’s title of “conjurer of the goddess Serket” means he was “a specialist in poisonous bites,” as research team leader Philippe Collombert, an Egyptologist at the University of Geneva, tells Live Science. The other titles on the sarcophagus are quite rare: “Director of medicinal plants” has only been found on one other ancient Egyptian artifact, and “chief dentist” is also very unusual, Collombert says.

Quite the personality of how it seems. Also, "Chief Dentist" is nice