The exhibition Ancient Egypt: Magic and Medicine in the Swansea University Egypt Centre is unusual as there are just two ancient objects on display. One is a limestone fragment that was used like scrap paper to write or draw on. On this fragment, a man has written asking a magician to send goose fat to heal his eyes. Remarkably, a follow-up letter from the same man also survives. It requests more fat because his cat had eaten the last lot.
The other object is a magnificent statuette covered with spells in hieroglyphs and images of Egyptian gods. The statue shows the child form of Horus (the god of sky, war, and divine kingship) standing on a pair of crocodiles while grasping snakes, scorpions, a lion and an ibex.
