Thesis supervisor: Ildikó Pap
co-supervisor: György Pálfi
Location of studies (in Hungarian): University of Szeged, Faculty of Science and Informatics, Department of Biological Anthropology; Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest Abbreviation of location of studies: SzTE
Description of the research topic:
A mummy is a deceased human or an animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either human intentional or natural circumstances.
The mummified remains can be studied by methods of biological anthropology and palaeopathology.
The aim of this doctoral research is to learn the methods of scientific research of mummies. Through a multidisciplinary approach, we can understand what kind of diseases they have been affected by, how they lived, what was their diet, how did they look like.
The PhD examination will rely on the analysis of artificial and naturally mummified specimens.
The study is based on the collection of the naturally mummified and anthropogenic mummies stored at the Department of Anthropology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.
The analysis of the anthropogenic mummies from the Egyptian Gamhud site.
The Ptolemaic period mummies were unwrapped in the museum due to the intervention of the anthropologist who examined these remains.
The anthropological materials have been thus skeletonised, but some of the soft tissues were also preserved.
The examination is presently being conducted by a team of anthropologists and egyptologists.
The examination of the 18th Century mummified individuals from the Dominican church of Vác.
Most of the bodies buried in the crypt were naturally mummified due to the appropriate circumstances, while the remaining individuals were skeletonised.
The research conducted on the mummies involves an interdisciplinary Hungarian and international group.
Bioanthropological analysis, biological reconstruction, palaeodemographic, palaeomicrobiological investigation. Microhistorical research.
Required language skills: English Recommended language skills (in Hungarian): German Number of students who can be accepted: 3
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