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. 2024 Apr 16;13(4):266. doi: 10.3390/biology13040266

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The heart in ancient Egypt. (I) The heart and the interior-ib in medical texts. (A) Heart-haty. (B) Heart-ib or interior-ib [adapted from B. Ziskind [1]]; (II) representation of the heart in the titling of the pharaoh. All the names brought by the king of Egypt constitute his title. Title of Horus Qâ, pharaoh of the 1st dynasty [adapted from B. Ziskind [1]]; (III) the “debdeb” hieroglyph; pulsate in the Ebers Papyrus [adapted from B. Ziskind [2]]; (IV) Anubis weighing the heart of Ani. [adapted from Papyrus of Ani, 1250 b.C, during the Nineteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Egyptians dealing in illegal antiques in Luxor in 1888 were responsible for the discovery of the scroll. The purchase was made by E. A. Wallis Budge and, finally, by the British Museum [7]].