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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

I think you'll find that alchemy was actually based on Egyptian beliefs.
While we're not actually sure of the origins of the word, one explanation is that alchemy means "the egyptian science" because khemia was an old name for Egypt.

That's actually pretty odd, given the classical elements came from the Greeks. Then again, Europeans were never very picky about who they stole from. Although so far as I remember, Egyptian science involved a lot of dung of all things. >.0;

Well, actually, that's not fair. They did have some pretty nifty surgical practices. I remember watching something that said they used biting ants as stitches and even had a technique to replace a lost nose with forehead skin using honey as a disinfectant (as honey has antiseptic properties) and wadded cotton soaked in animal fat to keep things from sticking together.