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Margaret Murray
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Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863–1963)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Complete Home Knitting Illustrated - Easy to Understand Instructions for Making Garments for the Family - How to Combine Knitting with Fabric - How To
- City of Shepherd Kings
- The Splendour That Was Egypt
- Witch Cult
- The Feminine Occult
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1945-06-20
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 47
- Total plays
- 87
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,914x
- A New Method for Measuring Daytime Sleepiness: The Epworth Sleepiness Scale
· 1991 · cited 13,894x
- <i>MolProbity</i>: all-atom structure validation for macromolecular crystallography
· 2009 · cited 13,857x
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Quotes
- “The Esbat differed from the Sabbat by being primarily for business...very often the Esbat was for sheer enjoyment only.”
- “In a certain Northern city only 2 per cent of the people are colored, yet we furnish 16 per cent of male prisoners and 34 per cent [of] female criminals. In another Northern or Northwestern city we make up 1 1/3 per cent of the whole city, and yet 10 per cent of the arrests fall on us. Immorality is directly responsible for these crimes, and hence punishment. Immorality is also directly responsible for physical inability to resist crime.”
- “The average colored person dislikes water, and he won’t keep himself clean. He bathes, if at all, once a week Saturday night and changes his clothes in the same indifferent way. He seldom uses a tooth brush. He often even neglects to comb his hair, except on Sunday. There is no excuse for this. Bathe at least twice a week, and change the clothes as often, and be sure to clean the teeth at least once a day, and do not forget to comb the hair each day.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Margaret Alice Murray , 13 July 1863, Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata , India)
- Died
- 13 November 1963 (1963-11-13) (aged 100), Welwyn , Hertfordshire, England
- Alma mater
- University College London
- Occupations
- Egyptologist archaeologist anthropologist folklorist
- Employer
- University College London (1898–1935)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was a British Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. She was president of the Folklore Society from 1953 to 1955, and published widely.
Born to a wealthy middle-class English family in Calcutta, British India, Murray divided her youth between India, Britain, and Germany, training as both a nurse and a social worker. Moving to London, in 1894 she began studying Egyptology at UCL, developing a friendship with department head Flinders Petrie, who encouraged her early academic publications and appointed her junior lecturer in 1898. In 1902–1903, she took part in Petrie's excavations at Abydos, Egypt, there discovering the Osireion temple, and the following season investigated the Saqqara cemetery, both of which established her reputation in Egyptology. Supplementing her UCL wage by giving public classes and lectures at the British Museum and Manchester Museum, it was at the latter in 1908 that she led the unwrapping of Khnum-nakht, one of the mummies recovered from the Tomb of two Brothers – the first time that a woman had publicly unwrapped a mummy. Recognising that British Egyptomania reflected the existence of widespread public interest in Ancient Egypt, Murray wrote several books on Egyptology targeted at a general audience.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margaret Murray” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.