Bob Brier

Bob Brier ( born December 13, 1943 in New York City) is known as Mr. Mummy, is a world renowned American Egyptologist, in particular in the field of paleopathology. The University at Long Iceland C. W. Post Campus active Egyptologist among the world's very first experts on mummies and mummification.

Life

Bob Brier was born in the Bronx and grew up there as well. He earned his bachelor's degree at Hunter College in New York. From 1966 to 1970 he was a member of the research team of the Institute of Parapsychology (formerly Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man) in Durham. His Ph. D. in philosophy he made in 1970 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after which he taught at the Long Iceland University from 1972. He was from 1981 to 1996 the chairman of the Philosophy Department. He also acted as Chairman of the " Egyptology Today" Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Research

Bob Brier has explored with a groundbreaking result Mumifizierungspraktiken world. He examined known mummies such as that of Tutankhamun, Ramses II, Lenin, Eva Perón and the Medici family. In 1994, Bob Brier mummified and his colleague, Ronald Wade, director of the State Anatomy Board of Maryland, became the first humans for 2,000 years a human body with the ancient Egyptian methods. This experiment brought Brier nicknamed "Mr. Mummy " one. It also addressed in detail in a television broadcast of the National Geographic Society with the same name on the test.

Writings

• Precognition and the philosophy of science: An essay on backward causation. Humanities Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-391-00325-9.
• The Glory of Ancient Egypt: A Collection of Rare Engravings from the Napoleonic expedition. 1990, ISBN 0-8115-4469-9.
• Egyptomania. Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville NY 1992, ISBN 0-933699-26-3.
• Egyptian mummies: unraveling the secrets of an ancient art. Michael O'Mara, London 1996, ISBN 1-85479-799-9.
• The Encyclopedia of Mummies. Facts on File, New York 1998, ISBN 0,816,031,088th
• The murder of Tutankhamen: a true story. Berkley Books, New York 2005, ISBN 0,425,206,904th
• The Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. / London 1999, ISBN 0-313-30313-4.