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Family planning was a topic of vital importance in the ancient Mediterranean. Some of the earliest medical literature from ancient Greece and Rome deals with fertility and reproductive health. Among the numerous treatments and procedures...

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-fascinating-history-of-cemeteries-keith-eggener Spindly trees, rusted gates, crumbling stone, a solitary mourner: these things come to mind when we think of cemeteries. But not long ago...

Various types of corn (maize). Photo by Keith Weller. Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A funerary model of a bakery and brewery, dating the 11th dynasty, circa 2009-1998 B.C. Painted and gessoed wood, originally from Thebes.

Objects from the tomb of Thutmose IV, 14th century BCE, including amulets in the form of the ankh, symbol of life or everlasting life. Two large amulets in the shape of an ankh were found among shabti figures and other funerary objects...

Sheets of the Westcar Papyrus, Egyptian, date disputed. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

The funeral mask of the Egyptian queen Tiye, 1398-1338 BCE. Tiye was the wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of both Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun.(Altes Museum, Berlin)

Sheets of the Westcar Papyrus, Egyptian, date disputed. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

An alabaster statuette of Ankhnesmeryre II and her son Pepi II. Egypt, 6th Dynasty, c. 2288-2224/2194 BCE (Brooklyn Museum)

Painted linen and tempera depicting the Egyptian goddess Nephthys. 2nd-1st century BCE. (Metropolitan Museum of art, New York)