The use of opium-like preparations in Egyptian surgery is recorded in the Ebers Papyrus of 1500 BC. However, it is questionable whether opium was known in ancient Egypt before the Eighteenth dynasty.
The use of opium-like preparations in Egyptian surgery is recorded in the Ebers Papyrus of 1500 BC. Ebers G (1889). Levin & Munksgaard, Ejnor Munksgaard However, it is questionable whether opium was known in ancient Egypt before the eighteenth Dynasty.