The doctor may have served under Pepi II, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom around the 23rd century B.C.E. He was crowned as a child and retained the throne for 60 to 90 years. When he ...

The 4,100-year-old tomb of a doctor who "treated the pharaoh himself" has been discovered at the site of Saqqara in Egypt. The burial belongs to a doctor named "Tetinebefou," the Swiss-French team ...