| Ebers Papyrus | |
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| Size | length: c. 20 meters |
| Created | c. 1550 BCE |
| Discovered | Egypt |
| Present location | Leipzig, Saxony, Germany |
| Language | Hieratic Egyptian |
The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to c. 1550 BC (the late Second Intermediate Period or early New Kingdom). Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of Ancient Egypt, it was purchased at Luxor in the winter of 1873–1874 by the German Egyptologist Georg Ebers. It is currently kept at the Leipzig University Library in Germany.