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ADVERTISEMENT In a spellbinding discovery, a French-Swiss team archaeological team in Egypt has uncovered the tomb of a multi-talented wizard-doctor who served the pharaohs approximately 4,000 years ago. Inscriptions on the tomb identifys its owner as "Tetinebefou", a celebrated physician during the reign of King Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty, which spanned roughly from 2305 BC to 2118 BC. The inscriptions suggest that Tetinebefou held a “complete series of titles”, including “chief doctor of