Prehistoric medicine refers to medicine before humans were are to read and write. It covers a vast period, which varies according to regions and cultures. Anthropologists, people who study the ...

The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.

Yet traditional medicine remains a vibrant part of the state health care system. Most Chinese hospitals have a ward devoted to ancient cures. Citing traditional medicine’s potential to lower ...

“But we cannot actually distinguish between a treatment and an autopsy.” Medicine in ancient Egypt, documented extensively in ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

KUALA LUMPUR : Her life has been nothing short of remarkable. Once unable to complete her secondary education due to ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Babylon in the third millennium B.C. Traditional ...