Arnott R
Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, England.
J R Soc Med. 1996 May;89(5):265-70. doi: 10.1177/014107689608900508.
Since the discovery of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations of Crete and Greek mainland, a systematic understanding has been gained of their material culture and social structures. Nevertheless, because of the absence of textual and pictorial evidence of medicine of the kind which exists in the contemporary societies of Egypt and the Near East, little work has been produced on the subject of disease and the practice of medicine in the period. However, new pathological evidence throws much light on this hitherto largely unknown aspect of their civilization.
自从克里特岛和希腊大陆的米诺斯文明和迈锡尼文明被发现以来，人们对它们的物质文化和社会结构有了系统的了解。然而，由于缺乏埃及和近东当代社会所存在的那种医学文本和图像证据，关于这一时期疾病和医学实践的研究很少。不过，新的病理学证据为他们文明中这一迄今为止很大程度上未知的方面提供了很多启示。
