The Tomb of the Two Brothers, or Margaret Murray and the Manchester Mummies

Kathleen Sheppard
University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO

ARCE Chicago Chapter May Meeting

This talk focuses on Margaret Murray’s public unrolling of two mummies in Manchester in 1908. Murray’s main goal was to raise the interest of the general public and at the same time to educate them in the true history of ancient Egypt, while ascertaining new scientific information and contributing to the scholarly interpretations of ancient Egypt.

Dr. Kathleen Sheppard received her PhD in the History of Science in 2010 from the University of Oklahoma. She studied the history of British Egyptology and focused on women in the profession. After earning her degree, she went to teach for a year at the American University in Cairo, and is now at Missouri University, Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri. She loves her family, good food, and running.

Her first book is the scientific biography of Margaret Alice Murray, one of the first professional female Egyptologists.  Her next project is about hotels in Cairo. 

When
Saturday, May 2
5:00 PM

Where
LaSalle Banks Room
Oriental Institute
Lower Level
1155 E 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637

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