Margaret Murray
Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863-1963) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 100
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Something wrong?Margaret Alice Murray 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.
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Murray studied Egyptology at the UCL Wilkins Building (pictured).
The Osireion (pictured), which was first excavated by Murray
Murray came to do much lecturing and cataloguing at Manchester Museum (pictured).
Glastonbury Abbey (pictured) inspired Murray's interest in British folklore.
Murray in London in 1928
Murray excavated at Borġ in-Nadur in Malta (pictured).
Murray in 1938Awards
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Margaret Alice Murray 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.
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