Locating information in an Egyptian text of the 17th century B.C.

✍ Scribed by Kilgour, Frederick G.

• Book ID: 102653790
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 681 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199306)44:5<292::aid-asi4>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

An analysis of the systematic organization and use of red and black inks in The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (Smith, 1930), generally believed to have been written in the seventeenth century B.C., has revealed that the primary purpose for the use of red ink must have been to facilitate finding desired