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The Archaeological Research Unit (University of Cyprus) and the Department of the History of Medicine (University of Crete) are organizing an International Conference on:

Medicine in the Ancient Mediterranean World

The conference is addressed to the international scientific community of doctors, historians, archaeologists and researchers with a special interest in the history and archaeology of medicine, the history of diseases and palaeopathology. It aims to stress different aspects of ancient medical practice and contemporary knowledge on disease in the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine worlds, up to AD 1204.

Conference Topics:
Ancient medical practitioners
Schools of medicine
Surgical instruments
Medicaments and pharmaceutical preparations
Healing deities and their sanctuaries
Ex-votos
History of diseases
Palaeopathology