Of these, six or seven are of the first importance.

The most famous is that discovered by Ebers, dating from about 1500 B.C.A superb document, one of the great treasures of the Leipzig Library, it is 20.23 metres long and 30 centimetres high and in a state of wonderful preservation.

Others are the Kahun, Berlin, Hearst and British Museum papyri.

All these have now been published--the last three quite recently, edited by Wreszinski.( 7) I show here a reproduction from which an idea may be had of these remarkable documents.

They are motley collections, filled with incantations, charms, magical formulae, symbols, prayers and prescriptions for all sorts of ailments.