Georg Moritz Ebers (1837 -1898), was a German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers Papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873-74. Ebers early conceived the idea of popularizing Egyptian lore by means of historical romances. Eine gyptische K nigstochter was published in 1864 and obtained great success. His subsequent works of the same kind-Uarda (1877), Homo sum (1878),...