Anna David
Biographic Data
| ID | 9052755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna David |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | David |
| SIGNATURE | DAVID A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-0920-0160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
If you leave it, you lose it
Human–wildlife interactions are becoming more common as we progress through the Anthropocene. People tend to feed wildlife more regularly as it is often popularised by social media and can counteract their disconnect from the natural world. These interactions impact wildlife behaviour, feeding ecology and zoonotic transmission dynamics. Due to the risks involved, wildlife practitioners seek effective management strategies to protect both visitors…
Enhancing mummy ‘palaeobiographies’ through the use of multidisciplinary techniques and approaches
Scientific examination of mummies has provided a better understanding of the ancestry, diet, disease, medical practices, mummification processes, culture and society of human populations worldwide and from different epochs. However, many examinations have been invasive and/or destructive, leading to current-day concerns among archaeologists and mummy custodians about this methodology. Multidisciplinary approaches, notably minimally invasive biops…
Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt by Philippa Lang (review)
Reviewed by: Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt by Philippa Lang A. Rosalie David Philippa Lang. Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt. Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 41. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013. xiv + 318 pp. Ill. $151.00 (978-90-04-21858-1). Medicine in ancient Egypt has traditionally been studied either as an important aspect of pharaonic culture (from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period), or from the perspective of Greek med…
William Flinders Petrie and the Egyptology Collection at the Manchester Museum, England
Sir William Flinders Petrie (the grandson of Captain Matthew Flinders who explored the coast of Australia between 1797 and 1803) had a brilliant career as an archaeologist that spanned five decades, and his contribution to the subject in developing scientific methodologies for excavation is unparallelled. Initially, it was Amelia B. Edwards, a founder of The Egypt Exploration Fund in London, who recognised Petrie’s genius, and ensured that he was…
Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Pigments
The application of FT‐Raman spectroscopy and visible Raman microscopy to the non‐destructive analysis of pigment specimens excavated from Tell el Amarna by Flinders Petrie in the 1890s has provided information about the chemical composition of the materials used by XVIIIth Dynasty artists in the New Kingdom at the time of King Akhenaten, c. 1340 bc. Comparison of the Raman spectra of the samples labelled ‘red and yellow ochre’ with documented, ar…
Benefits and Disadvantages of Some Conservation Treatments for Egyptian Mummies
Mummified remains and associated artifacts are fragile and vulnerable to several types of deterioration, including those factors which result from environmental conditions, physical damage and damage caused by previous inadequate conservation attempts. This paper considers the benefits and disadvantages of the conservation treatments in relation to the preservation of DNA in mummified remains
Years of Schistosomiasis in Egypt
The evolution of disease is one of medicine's most challenging questions. This paper considers the epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Egypt over a 5000 year period. Evidence from mummies demonstrates the presence of this disease in ancient Egypt, and several diagnostic laboratory methods are currently being developed and used to examine the palaeopathology of schistosomiasis in the mummies. This data will be compared with information being gather…
Short Notices
Short Notices J. Worth Estes, The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt, Canton, MA: Watson Publishing International, 1989. Pp. xii + 196. £10.95 (pbk.). ISBN 0-88135-099-0. A. R. DAVID A. R. DAVID The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 495-a–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/3.3.495-a Published: 01…
The Egyptian Kingdoms
The Ancient Egyptians
Analysis of Egyptian Mummies
A wide range of investigations using modern scientific techniques such as radiology, detailed dental studies, histo-pathology, electron microscopy – TEM, AEM, SEM – and finger-printing were carried out on a number of Egyptian mummies from the Manchester Museum. This review analyses in detail experiments in mummifying rals, following the descriptions of Herodotus; the unwrapping of a mummy under carefully controlled and recorded conditions and the…
Short review and book note
Geoffrey Parrinder, London, The wisdom of the early Buddhists, Sheldon Press, 1977. 86pp. £1.50 Irmgard Schloegel, The Zen way, London, Sheldon Press, 1977. viii + 117pp. £2.95 Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic experience: Mantramañjarī: An anthology of the Vedas for modern man and contemporary celebration, Edited and translated with introductions and notes, with the collaboration of N. Shanta, M.A.R. Rogers, B. Bäumer and M. Bidoli. xxxviii + 937 pp.…
Religious Ritual at Abydos (c. 1300 BC)
Short review and book note
Firth, Raymond, Symbols public and private, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1973, pp. 469, £6.60. Brown, L. B. (ed.), Psychology and religion. London: Penguin, 1973. Duchesne-Guillemin, J., Religion of ancient Iran (E.T. trans. K. M. JamaspAsa), Bombay, 1973, pp. viii + 271, £2. Morenz, Siegfried, Egyptian religion (E.T. trans. Ann E. Keep), London, Methuen, 1973, £7.50. Bunnag Jane, Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman: A study of urban monastic organiz…
Short review and book note
Thausing, Gertrude, Sein und werden, Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica Nr. 23 Vienna 1971, pp. 295, 30 plates. No price stated. Bloch, Marc, The royal touch. Sacred monarchy and scrofula in England and France. Translated by J. E. Anderson. Pp. xi + 441. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1973. £6.50. Woodard, William P. The allied occupation of Japan and Japanese religions, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1972. 393 pp. 6 plates, no price stated. >Burland, C. A…
Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Pigments
The application of FT‐Raman spectroscopy and visible Raman microscopy to the non‐destructive analysis of pigment specimens excavated from Tell el Amarna by Flinders Petrie in the 1890s has provided information about the chemical composition of the materials used by XVIIIth Dynasty artists in the New Kingdom at the time of King Akhenaten, c. 1340 bc. Comparison of the Raman spectra of the samples labelled ‘red and yellow ochre’ with documented, ar…
Benefits and Disadvantages of Some Conservation Treatments for Egyptian Mummies
Mummified remains and associated artifacts are fragile and vulnerable to several types of deterioration, including those factors which result from environmental conditions, physical damage and damage caused by previous inadequate conservation attempts. This paper considers the benefits and disadvantages of the conservation treatments in relation to the preservation of DNA in mummified remains
Short review and book note
Thausing, Gertrude, Sein und werden, Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica Nr. 23 Vienna 1971, pp. 295, 30 plates. No price stated. Bloch, Marc, The royal touch. Sacred monarchy and scrofula in England and France. Translated by J. E. Anderson. Pp. xi + 441. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1973. £6.50. Woodard, William P. The allied occupation of Japan and Japanese religions, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1972. 393 pp. 6 plates, no price stated. >Burland, C. A…
Short review and book note
Thausing, Gertrude, Sein und werden, Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica Nr. 23 Vienna 1971, pp. 295, 30 plates. No price stated. Bloch, Marc, The royal touch. Sacred monarchy and scrofula in England and France. Translated by J. E. Anderson. Pp. xi + 441. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1973. £6.50. Woodard, William P. The allied occupation of Japan and Japanese religions, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1972. 393 pp. 6 plates, no price stated. >Burland, C. A…
Religious Ritual at Abydos (c. 1300 BC)
Short review and book note
Firth, Raymond, Symbols public and private, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1973, pp. 469, £6.60. Brown, L. B. (ed.), Psychology and religion. London: Penguin, 1973. Duchesne-Guillemin, J., Religion of ancient Iran (E.T. trans. K. M. JamaspAsa), Bombay, 1973, pp. viii + 271, £2. Morenz, Siegfried, Egyptian religion (E.T. trans. Ann E. Keep), London, Methuen, 1973, £7.50. Bunnag Jane, Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman: A study of urban monastic organiz…
Short review and book note
Geoffrey Parrinder, London, The wisdom of the early Buddhists, Sheldon Press, 1977. 86pp. £1.50 Irmgard Schloegel, The Zen way, London, Sheldon Press, 1977. viii + 117pp. £2.95 Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic experience: Mantramañjarī: An anthology of the Vedas for modern man and contemporary celebration, Edited and translated with introductions and notes, with the collaboration of N. Shanta, M.A.R. Rogers, B. Bäumer and M. Bidoli. xxxviii + 937 pp.…
Analysis of Egyptian Mummies
A wide range of investigations using modern scientific techniques such as radiology, detailed dental studies, histo-pathology, electron microscopy – TEM, AEM, SEM – and finger-printing were carried out on a number of Egyptian mummies from the Manchester Museum. This review analyses in detail experiments in mummifying rals, following the descriptions of Herodotus; the unwrapping of a mummy under carefully controlled and recorded conditions and the…
The Ancient Egyptians
Short Notices
Short Notices J. Worth Estes, The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt, Canton, MA: Watson Publishing International, 1989. Pp. xii + 196. £10.95 (pbk.). ISBN 0-88135-099-0. A. R. DAVID A. R. DAVID The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 495-a–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/3.3.495-a Published: 01…
The Egyptian Kingdoms
Years of Schistosomiasis in Egypt
The evolution of disease is one of medicine's most challenging questions. This paper considers the epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Egypt over a 5000 year period. Evidence from mummies demonstrates the presence of this disease in ancient Egypt, and several diagnostic laboratory methods are currently being developed and used to examine the palaeopathology of schistosomiasis in the mummies. This data will be compared with information being gather…
Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Pigments
The application of FT‐Raman spectroscopy and visible Raman microscopy to the non‐destructive analysis of pigment specimens excavated from Tell el Amarna by Flinders Petrie in the 1890s has provided information about the chemical composition of the materials used by XVIIIth Dynasty artists in the New Kingdom at the time of King Akhenaten, c. 1340 bc. Comparison of the Raman spectra of the samples labelled ‘red and yellow ochre’ with documented, ar…
Benefits and Disadvantages of Some Conservation Treatments for Egyptian Mummies
Mummified remains and associated artifacts are fragile and vulnerable to several types of deterioration, including those factors which result from environmental conditions, physical damage and damage caused by previous inadequate conservation attempts. This paper considers the benefits and disadvantages of the conservation treatments in relation to the preservation of DNA in mummified remains
William Flinders Petrie and the Egyptology Collection at the Manchester Museum, England
Sir William Flinders Petrie (the grandson of Captain Matthew Flinders who explored the coast of Australia between 1797 and 1803) had a brilliant career as an archaeologist that spanned five decades, and his contribution to the subject in developing scientific methodologies for excavation is unparallelled. Initially, it was Amelia B. Edwards, a founder of The Egypt Exploration Fund in London, who recognised Petrie’s genius, and ensured that he was…
Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt by Philippa Lang (review)
Reviewed by: Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt by Philippa Lang A. Rosalie David Philippa Lang. Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt. Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 41. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013. xiv + 318 pp. Ill. $151.00 (978-90-04-21858-1). Medicine in ancient Egypt has traditionally been studied either as an important aspect of pharaonic culture (from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period), or from the perspective of Greek med…
Enhancing mummy ‘palaeobiographies’ through the use of multidisciplinary techniques and approaches
Scientific examination of mummies has provided a better understanding of the ancestry, diet, disease, medical practices, mummification processes, culture and society of human populations worldwide and from different epochs. However, many examinations have been invasive and/or destructive, leading to current-day concerns among archaeologists and mummy custodians about this methodology. Multidisciplinary approaches, notably minimally invasive biops…
If you leave it, you lose it
Human–wildlife interactions are becoming more common as we progress through the Anthropocene. People tend to feed wildlife more regularly as it is often popularised by social media and can counteract their disconnect from the natural world. These interactions impact wildlife behaviour, feeding ecology and zoonotic transmission dynamics. Due to the risks involved, wildlife practitioners seek effective management strategies to protect both visitors…
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