Another scientist in my collection with an unknown birthday is one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official and overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the “Overseer of the Women Physicians.”

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