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Ramses the Great's Dentists: Toothache in Ancient Kemet
When Ramses II ruled Egypt, toothache was a fact of life. But for the pharaoh and his court, there was a class of healers devoted to the mouth: the swanw, or dentists. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore what dental care looked like in ancient Kemet—from the gritty bread that wore down molars to the herbal rinses and bronze tools used to extract aching teeth. They delve into the Ebers and Hearst papyri, where remedies for loose teeth and gum disease were written in hieratic, and examine the evidence from mummies like Ramses himself, whose own jaw shows the abscesses that may have plagued…
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