The Rod of Asclepius remains a symbol of health and medicine around the world to this day. Asclepius was a demi-god son of ...

Ancient Greek medicine is probably the basis of modern ... They would refer to their Hippocratic books for guidance on how to carry out the examinations and which diseases they should consider ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

The Book of Hearts, a section of the Ebers Papyrus ... On the next page, we look at ancient greek medicine.