Search Constraints
Search Results
-
Journal article
Q&A with Margaret Maitland
Missing fragments of a 15th-century Egyptian box finally returned to NMSDurrans, Alice
-
Journal article
Analytical research on Egyptian gold work at the National Museums of Scotland
National Museums Scotland has an extensive Egyptian collection, which was mainly built up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which includes 11 mummies, most of which have well preserved and highly decorated coffins and lids. Among the about 6,000 objects from Ancient Egypt and Sudan, the gold...Tate, Jim ; Troalen, Lore ; Guerra, Maria Filomena
Recycling, Gold alloys, Qurneh, Solder, Egypt, and Polychromy
-
Journal article
Pharaoh: King of Egypt - a retrospective
Maitland, Margaret
-
Journal article
Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial
While the ancient Egyptians’ hope for eternal life remained constant, their burial practices were ever-changing. Dr Margaret Maitland, senior curator at National Museums Scotland, charts the remarkable changes in Egyptian tombs and the extraordinary objects that filled them…Maitland, Margaret
-
Journal article
Me and my research: shrouded in mystery
Maitland, Margaret
-
Journal article
The Mummy reviewed by an Egyptologist: ‘Tom Cruise’s Late Egyptian is passable’
Dr Dan Potter, an Egyptologist and Assistant Curator at National Museums Scotland, gives his thoughts on Tom Cruise’s widely panned foray into Egyptian mythology.Potter, Dan
-
Journal article
Definition of the lonchaea polyhamata species-group (diptera, lonchaeidae) with a description of new species
The Lonchaea polyhamata McAlpine, 1964 species-group is defined and five new species within it are described from the Afrotropical region namely, L. dama MacGowan sp. nov., L. mbeya MacGowan sp. nov., L. njombe MacGowan sp. nov., L. taita MacGowan sp. nov. and L. zomba MacGowan sp. nov. With the inclusion...MacGowan, Iain
new species, Diptera, Afrotropics, Lonchaea, and Lonchaeidae
-
-
-
Journal article
Saving the mountain bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci): assessment of the genetic status of captive bongos as a source for genetic reinforcement of wild populations
Fewer than 140 individuals of the rare and critically endangered mountain bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) remain in the wild. This population has eroded genetic diversity, with only two haplotypes detected with mitochondrial DNA markers. The genetic diversity of mountain bongos from the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) was assessed for...O’Donoghue, P ; Gruber, Karl ; Bingaman Lackey, Laurie ; Kitchener, Andrew C ; O’Donoghue, Emily …
microsatellites, bongo, genetic augmentation, One Plan Approach, and Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci
-
Journal article
Dirt, purity, and spatial control: anthropological perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society and Culture in the Middle Kingdom
The concepts of purity and pollution were central to the maintenance of social boundaries in ancient Egyptian culture. Anthropological approaches, in particular the work of Mary Douglas, are useful in examining their impact on social structure and individual lived experience. Cleanliness and dirtiness were represented as defining characteristics of the...Maitland, Margaret
-
Journal article
Storm-induced community Dynamics in the Fezouata Biota (Lower Ordovician, Morocco)
In the Central Anti-Atlas (Morocco), the lower part of the Fezouata Shale has yielded locally abundant remains of soft-bodied to lightly sclerotized taxa, occurring in low diversity assemblages characterized by strong spatial and taxonomic heterogeneities, and frequently, by the occurrence of small-sized individuals. Size frequency analyses of Celdobolus sp., Wosekella...Saleh, Farid ; Candela, Yves ; Harper, David A T ; Polechová, Marika ; Lefebvre, Bertrand …
- « Previous
- Next »
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4