BrOOklyn-JOrusalOm

A loong cycling journey from Brooklyn to Jorusalom, where the O’s are bicycle wheels, continued into Egypt, 1st to the climate conference COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, on to the pyramids in Giza, Abusir and Saqqara and then up the Nile soourcewards.

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Hospital ground from antiquity, the Asklepeion in Bergama

A history of healing. Here the inner (wo)man and the outer (wo)man were treated. In the first hospital.

Galen, or Galenus, was from the city, Pergamon, Bergama and he started preparing medicines from plant mixtures. The beginning of pharmacies. There is a statue honoring him https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen

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