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Is this real? That doctor's bag looks so modern... /Pieter Kuiper 08:51, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree with you. It can't be a real old papyrus. The bag, the doctor head-tool... Does someone has the original picture ?

Authenticity

Template:U- S. Jähnichen, can you tell us from where comes this picture and what information provides the original source on it ?
Thanks Hesan

This picture was published in an review about the history of migraine therapy (Villalón CM, Centurión D, Valdivia LF, De Vries P, Saxena PR (2002). An introduction to migraine: from ancient treatment to functional pharmacology and antimigraine therapy. Proc West Pharmacol Soc. 45:199-210). The authors claimed it is from a papyrus dated "2500 BC". But indeed, there are doubts about the authenticity (discussed but not published). Especially the bag (looking like a 1950s doctors case) an the doctors headdress (a head mirror?). This also has consequences to the copyright. In case of authenticity, the copyright has expired for a long time ;-). In case of a joke, the situation is more complex. --Sven Jähnichen (talk) 20:47, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I really think this Picture is doubtful. Stylistically, if the patient can look like a man from the Old Kingdom , the doctor is post- Amarna Art (1300 BC). It's impossible that this picture could date from 2500BC. When we look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_medical_papyri, there is no old kingdom medicin papyri. We see that the majority of those papyrus are from the New Kingdom or after. If we had an old kingdom papyrus, it would have been famous. Thanks Hesan