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Merit-Ptah first appears in literature in a 1937 book by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead on female doctors. [10] Campbell Hurd-Mead presents two ancient Egyptian female doctors, an unnamed one dating to the Fifth Dynasty and Merit-Ptah, dating evidently to the New Kingdom as Hurd-Mead states that she is shown in the Valley of the Kings (the burial ground of Egyptian kings from about 1500 BCE to 1080 BCE).
Peseshet (fl. c. 2500 BC) who lived under the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (albeit a date in the Fifth Dynasty is also possible), is often credited with being the earliest known female physician in history. Some have credited Merit-Ptah with being the first female physician, but she is likely a fictional creation based upon Peseshet. [2]
Also: Egypt: People: By occupation: Physicians / Women scientists: Women physicians This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Egyptian physicians . It includes physicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The lady Peseshet (2400 BC) may be the first recorded female doctor: she was possibly the mother of Akhethotep, and on a stela dedicated to her in his tomb she is referred to as imy-r swnwt, which has been translated as "Lady Overseer of the Lady Physicians" (swnwt is the feminine of swnw).
After finishing her primary education, Hilana Sedarous enrolled at "Madraset Al Saneyah" (a girls' boarding school in Cairo).She later went to a teacher training university, where after 2 years (in 1922), she received a scholarship and was sent with 5 other female Egyptian students to London to study mathematics.
Egyptian: Chief Physician to Akhenaten: Peseshet: 25th century BCE: Egyptian: one of the earliest known female physicians Harita: 8th century BCE Indian pupil of Atreya and composed samhita: Jatukarna: 8th century BCE Indian pupil of Atreya and composed "Jatukarna Samhita" Philinus of Cos: 3rd century BCE: Greek: reputed founder of the Empiric ...
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Exotic sets and costumes, depicting a fantasy version of ancient Egypt, were a good fit for Theda Bara's popular "vamp" image. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred in Cleopatra. When women in ancient Egypt are evoked, the first image that comes to mind for most is that of Cleopatra, or more precisely, Cleopatra VII. Although having a ...