article_snippet.sent: The treatment was discovered as part of an ongoing effort to translate the Oxyrhynchus papyrus - more than 500,000 documents found in an ancient rubbish tip at the Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus, about 100 miles south of Cairo.
article_snippet.sent: Oxyrhynchus lies south west of Cairo and is considered to be one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt.
article_snippet.sent: Oxyrhynchus has yielded a huge collection of papyrus texts from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history and among a huge collection of papyrus texts from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history are fragments of plays and the Gospel of Thomas.
article_snippet.sent: Egyptian was built around a system of canals and inhabitants dumped a huge collection of papyrus texts from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history rubbish at nearby sand hills, including lots of written material as Oxyrhynchus was governed bureaucratically by the Greeks and the Romans.
article_snippet.sent: the medical papyrus were discovered during excavations at Oxyrhynchus in 1890 by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt from Queen's College at the University of University.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Margarent Mountford, a papyrologist at the Egypt Exploration Society, which owns the papyrus texts, said: 'the papyrus texts are hugely important as the papyrus texts give us an insight into daily life at the time. '
article_snippet.sent: Hundreds of thousands of texts written on papyrus were found at Oxyrhynchus during the excavation (above)
article_snippet.sent: These images of some of the medical papyrus found at Oxyrhynchus contain descriptions for treating eye conditions, fever and haemorrhoids with surgery .
article_snippet.sent: The documents were found at the ancient town of Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt  around 100miles (160km) form Cairo . '
article_snippet.sent: This papyrus is an example of texts discoverd at Oxyrhynchus and features Euclid's Elements of Geometry .
article_snippet.sent: The source of The papyrus is unknown, but The source of the papyrus was said to have been found between the legs of a mummy in the Theban necropolis.