Amber JacobAmber Jacob is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, and co-director of the Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt (SciPap) project. Her research focuses on the history of medicine, particularly the intercultual contact between Egyptian and Greek medicine in the Graeco-Roman period. Her dissertation will include the editio princeps of an unpublished corpus of Demotic medical texts from Tebtunis in Egypt's Fayum Oasis. Recent publications include articles on skin diseases in Graeco-Roman Egypt and studies of the Egyptian pharmacological tradition in demotic medical and literary texts. Read More Read Less