Surgical Instruments on a Tomb Slab in Roman Malta
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Surgical Instruments on a Tomb Slab in Roman Malta
THE MALTESE ISLANDS fell under the rule of Rome in 216 B.C. With the division of the Roman Empire in A.D. 395, the Maltese archipelago is believed to have formed part of the Eastern or Byzantine Empire. Christianity was introduced into Malta in A.D. 60. As Roman law prohibited the interment of the dead inside the towns, the earliest Maltese Christian cemeteries were established outside the wall...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1974
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300019244