The mushroom that helped invent the first antibiotics in ancient Egypt 🪦💊
Ancient Egyptians used mouldy bread and certain fungi on wounds as early as 1500 BCE — a practice recorded in the Ebers Papyrus.
This is the oldest known use of fungal antibiotics, predating penicillin by over 3,500 years.
The network has been healing us longer than we ever realised.
Which ancient fungal remedy surprises you most?
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