Free Clinic for Ancient Egyptians

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While debates about healthcare continue to rage in the U.S., a discovery at an ancient Egyptian village shows that government healthcare plans are by no means “new.”

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Footnotes

Barbara Lesko and Leonard Lesko, “Pharaoh’s Workers: How the Israelites Lived in Egypt,” BAR 25:01.

Endnotes

Anne Elise Austin, Contending with Illness in Ancient Egypt: A Textual and Osteological Study of Health Care at Deir el-Medina (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2014).