Marzena Ozarek-Szilke
Archaeologist working mainly in Egypt, phisical anthropologist and paleopathologist, a member of the Polish Anthropological Society. Since 2015, I have been the co-director of interdisciplinary research on Egyptian mummies from the National Museum in Warsaw - Warsaw Mummy Projcet. I graduated BA and MA at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw (specializing in physical anthropology, archaeology of Ancient Egypt, Greco-Roman Egypt and the culture of Hellenistic east). My thesis titled. "Modern Techniques of Testing on Egyptian Mummies" was written under the guidance of assoc. prof. Andrzej Niwiński from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. Currently I am PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. My scientific research interests include: archaeology of Egypt, mummification, physical anthropology (also forensic), paleopathology, human anatomy, tafonomy, history of medicine and the methods of human remains examination. I have been continuously engaged in scientific analysis of mummified, skeletal and cremated human remains since 2006. During that time I worked in cooperation with, among others, the National Museum in Szczecin, Highway Research Centre IAUW and the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology in Warsaw. I have conducted anthropological analysis of human bones from dozens of sites in Poland and abroad. Since 2006 I have been a member of the archaeological mission at Naqlun in Fayum Oasis in Egypt, where I had been the chief anthropologist (since 2009-2015). Since 2015 I have been also the chief anthropologist at Gebelain archaeological mission in Egypt, where besides conducting osteological examination, I am the co-author of a new method of anthropological prospecting, which employs GIS techniques. I completed numerous courses and workshops on physical anthropology, anatomy and paleontology led by British and Polish scientists from various fields as well as courses in medical emergency, working with camera, and crisis management etc. I participated in numerous conferences and scientific workshops. Since 2002 I have been involved in science popularization projects and in 2010 I started my own company “mNauka”, which conducts bio-archaeological analyzes and develops educational science programs for children and youth.
Address: Polska, Mazowieckie, Poland
Address: Polska, Mazowieckie, Poland
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with its origins reaching into the 6th/7th or even 5th century CE.
Excavations at the site have been carried out since 1986 by the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw team led by Włodzimierz Godlewski. Cemetery C was identified during the survey in 1987 when one of the disturbed graves was xcavated. The number of burials was estimated at more than 180 graves. The regular exploration of the cemetery began in 2004.
Since then, 14 rock-hewn graves dating to the 6th/7th c. CE have been excavated. The remains represent 8 male individuals. The individuals ranged in age from 30 to 45 years. In five cases partially naturally mummified soft tissue was present on the skeletons.
Due to limitations, only a fragment of the paper can be shared here.
Modern expansion of the cultivation zone and settlement development is threatening the survival of many of the sites, hence the project proposes to investigate the site complex with a new form of comprehensive field survey.
The novelty of the method depends on combining the results of gathering, managing, storing, post-processing and interpreting different types of individual data from the field. The team has carried out a magnetic prospection of selected parts of the site and combined the
results with an analysis of data coming from a number of other research and survey methods, including most recently an anthropological and ceramological survey.
została przedstawiona w niniejszej pracy.
with its origins reaching into the 6th/7th or even 5th century CE.
Excavations at the site have been carried out since 1986 by the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw team led by Włodzimierz Godlewski. Cemetery C was identified during the survey in 1987 when one of the disturbed graves was xcavated. The number of burials was estimated at more than 180 graves. The regular exploration of the cemetery began in 2004.
Since then, 14 rock-hewn graves dating to the 6th/7th c. CE have been excavated. The remains represent 8 male individuals. The individuals ranged in age from 30 to 45 years. In five cases partially naturally mummified soft tissue was present on the skeletons.
Due to limitations, only a fragment of the paper can be shared here.
Modern expansion of the cultivation zone and settlement development is threatening the survival of many of the sites, hence the project proposes to investigate the site complex with a new form of comprehensive field survey.
The novelty of the method depends on combining the results of gathering, managing, storing, post-processing and interpreting different types of individual data from the field. The team has carried out a magnetic prospection of selected parts of the site and combined the
results with an analysis of data coming from a number of other research and survey methods, including most recently an anthropological and ceramological survey.
została przedstawiona w niniejszej pracy.
parts. They arrived in Poland during various circumstances which illustrate the early history of Egyptology in Poland. The launch of the Warsaw Mummy Project in 2015, an interdisciplinary research programme of
ancient Egyptian mummies preserved at the National Museum in Warsaw,
prompted a need to study their history.
The aim of the paper is to present the so-called pseudo-mummy of a child,
anonymous woman dubbed the Mysterious Lady, mummies in coffins of
Djed-Khonsu-iuf-ankh, and Amenhotep belonging to the University of
Warsaw, as well as Panepy, several body parts – like heads – owned by
the Museum and other institutions. It also considers the history of a lost
mummy donated by Karol Zamoyski. Many of them were acquired in the
19th century by travellers and most of them came from Thebes. The noticeable exception is the pseudo-mummy of a child and Zamoyski’s gift of unknown provenience.
Despite the loss of the documentation of many Egyptian artefacts in
Warsaw due to uprisings and wars which affected Warsaw mummies and
their coffins attracted enough attention in the 19th-century press to trace
their history. They also stimulated research and the development of Egyptology in Warsaw. To better understand this and the history of the collection, they are presented in the context of the development of the University of Warsaw, which housed many of them until 1918.