The Tomb of Ipuy and its Relation to Ancient Egyptian Medicine

Dr. Mahmoud ElMohamdy Abd El Hady Salama, PhD in Tourism Guidance, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Mansoura University

19 August 2019

01:00 PM

The BA Main Entrance Auditorium

The Antiquities Museum affiliated to the Cultural Outreach Sector at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina organizes a lecture entitled “The Tomb of Ipuy and its Relation to Ancient Egyptian Medicine” on Monday, 19 August 2019 at 1.00 pm in the BA Main Entrance Auditorium. The lecture is delivered by Dr. Mahmoud ElMohamdy Abd El Hady Salama, PhD in Tourism Guidance, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Mansoura University. 

The lecture pertains to the tomb of the artist Ipuy located at the Western Bank of Luxor, specifically in Dier Al-Madina area, under the number 217. This tomb is famous for its scenes that demonstrate the multifarious sculpture work done by its owner Ipuy. However, one of the wall scenes particularly exhibits a full scene that proves that the Ancient Egyptian has known much of the secrets of ancient medicine: namely, the scene of replacing a displaced human shoulder or treating disarticulation. Another scene portrays how the ancient Egyptians cure eye diseases and how they examine and treat eyes. Accordingly, it is obvious that this tomb exhibits treatment methods in two medical specializations in that era: disarticulation and eye diseases. This allows us to associate such scenes with what has appeared in various medical papyri in order to learn the ways of treatments for such diseases in ancient Egyptian medicine and compare them to those of modern medicine.