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How much can the written records of ancient civilisations tell us about the animals they lived alongside?, based on the venomous snakes described in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, suggests more than you might think.
As well as the symptoms of the bite, the papyrus also describes the deity associated with the snake, or whose intervention might save the patient." , for example, was described as causing rapid death. Readers were also warned that this snake had not the usual two fangs but four, still a rare feature for a snake today.
Could the snake of Apophis be an early, detailed description of a boomslang? And if so, how did the ancient Egyptians encounter a snake that now lives so far south of their borders? Others might have lived in the fertile, vegetated Nile valley or along the northern coast. For instance, boomslangs might have lived along the Red Sea coast in places that 4,000 years ago would have been part of Egypt.
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