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Owen Jarus

4,100-year-old tomb of doctor who treated pharaohs discovered at Saqqara

An Egyptian tomb with hieroglyphics on the walls.

The 4,100-year-old tomb of a doctor who "treated the pharaoh himself" has been discovered at the site of Saqqara in Egypt.

The burial belongs to a doctor named "Tetinebefou," the Swiss-French team that made the discovery reported in a translated blog post. Although the artifacts in the tomb had been plundered, archaeologists were able to study the site's wall paintings and hieroglyphic inscriptions, which describe the doctor's position and depict a variety of objects that may have been used in his medical treatments..

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