The medical prescriptions read like those of a modern doctor; we have the same formulae, the same admixture of various drugs.
The Egyptians were not only a people of scribes and readers, they were also a people of artists.

They had the same power as the Japanese of expressing in a few outlines the form and spirit of an object; their drawing is accurate, and at the same time spirited.

It is true that their canon of perspective was not the same as our own, but the greater difficulties it presented to the artist were successfully overcome.
Their portraits of foreign races are marvellously true to life, and their caricatures are as excellent as their more serious drawings.

It was in statuary, however, that the Egyptian artist was at his best.

The hardest of stones were carved into living likenesses, or invested with a dignity and pathos which it is difficult to match.