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Scroll Study Shows More Ancient Egyptian Venomous Snakes

Credit: PixaobayIn the journal Environmental Archaeology, our recent study delves into the insights that ancient civilizations' written records can provide about the wildlife they coexisted with. Our research, centered on venomous snakes documented in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, reveals a surprisingly diverse array of snake species in the land of the pharaohs. This newfound...