Margaret Murray
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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 work
Murray in 1928
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).
"Who put Bella in the wych elm?" is the final form of a series of graffiti connected with the discovery in 1943 of the remains of a murdered woman inside a wych elm on the outskirts of Hagley in Worce
Margaret Murray
…stored in local parish churches, Downing College, and Ely Cathedral; she never published her findings. In 1945, she briefly became involved in the "Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?" murder case. After the war ended she returned to London, settling into a bedsit room in Endsleigh Street, which was close to University College London…
Modern graffiti, photographed in 2006, on the Wychbury Obelisk
The skull of "Wych Elm Bella," as retrieved 18 April 1943
An ancient wych elm