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Re: Question about very ancient customs.

You are unlikely to find arceological evidence of that as the penis is boneless ( had to get that one in; opps did it again).
so you have to get amedical parus or stone tablet

there is a very old medical Papyrus extant called the Ebers Medical Papyrus
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The Ebers Medical Papyrus. Named after the German Egyptologist Georg Moritz Ebers who acquired the Papyrus in 1872 from Edwin Smith. The oldest known scientific treatise containing case studies on anatomy and the appropriate remedies, together with 700 formulae for making medicines are contained within the 110 page scroll. Dating from c 1534 BCE with a passage mentioning the 9th year of the reign of Amenhotep I. Thought to have been copied from a much earlier document as it has a reference to the pharaoh Den, who reigned during the 1st dynasty c.3000 BCE. The document, written in hieratic script measures some 20.23m in length and 30cm in height.

It contains a remarkably accurate description of the circulatory system, noting that the heart is the centre of the blood supply. Surprisingly, it also has a small section on psychiatry, recognising conditions like depression, described as "a sickness of the heart" along with other fields such as obstetrics, contraception, dentistry, and the digestive system.
Medicine and healthcare in Ancient Egypt

Also the The Edwin Smith Papyrus

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Finding a translation might be difficult.

What did the Israelite, Egyptian "slaves", say about circumcision in their history book?


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