Paper delivered by Lucia Raggetti at the conference The World of the Physiologus – Animal Stories and Representations in Oriental Manuscripts.
June 28-19, 2018, University of Hamburg
The AlchemEast project is devoted to the study of alchemical theory and practice as it appeared and developed in distinct, albeit contiguous (both chronologically and geographically) areas: Graeco-Roman Egypt, Byzantium, and the Near East, from Ancient Babylonian times to the early Islamic Period.