Abstract
A travel for treatment was one of the oldest motivations for travel in ancient world. Among thesites that attracted such travelers were the supposed healing centers in Egyptian temples. As theancient Egyptian physicians were very clever in their profession, they had a very remarkablefame not only in Egypt but among the patients of other ancient nations as well. The ancientEgyptian and foreigner patients traveled to those medical centers to spend a night or moreseeking for cure by medical treatment or through dreams and messages from gods. Thearchitectural evidences prove the existence of such healing centers in the temples. The onlypreserved example is the sanatorium within the precinct of the Hathor temple at Dendera, inUpper Egypt. According to the modern concept of tourism, such travels were more or less a typeof tourism. In this context, this paper, through the textual, pictorial, and architectural evidences,tries to originate the earlier examples of medical tourism, as well as it applies the concept andcomponents of present tourism on the travels of ancient Egyptian and foreigner patients.
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