SALIMA IKRAM



Salima Ikram

c/o American University in Cairo, 113 Sharia Qasr el Aini, Tahrir, Cairo, Egypt

Fax: 20-2-795-7565; Phone: +20-12-371-0826

email: salimaikram@; salima@aucegypt.edu

EDUCATION

1989-93 Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

Ph.D. ‘Choice Cuts: Meat Production in Ancient Egypt’

1986-87 Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

M. Phil. in Egyptian Archaeology & Museum Techniques

1985-86 American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Year Abroad Program

1982-85 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

A.B. Double major in Classical/Near Eastern Archaeology & History

EMPLOYMENT (since 1995)

Teaching & Academic Appointments

2017 Visiting Professor, Yale University

2016- Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology

2006-2016 Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo

2016-2020 Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University

2014; 2017 Research Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Wallenberg Research Center, Stellenbosch University

2013 Course on museology at the Coptic Museum

2012 Museology and Label Writing Workshops, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

2011-20 Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 

2008 Associate Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

2007-11 Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Durham University

2001-6 Associate Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo

1995-2001 Visiting and then Assistant Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo, Egypt,

Museums

2014-17 Turin Animal Mummy Project, Turin, Italy

2013 Consultant, Animal Mummies in South African Collections

2013 Consultant—Gallery reinstallation, McClung Museum, Knoxville, TN

2016 Museological Training Program for Curators, National Museum of Egyptian

Civilisation

2015 Human Remains Training Program for Curators, National Museum of Egyptian

Civilisation

2013-17 Research Fellow, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

2013 Training Program for Curators, Coptic Museum (NVIC, AUC, MSA, Biblioteca Alexandrina)

2008-17 Co-Director, Egyptian Museum Chariot Project

2007-17 Co-Director, Egyptian Museum Leatherwork Project

2012 Medelhavsmuseet, Stockhom, consultant on Mummies and collection history

2012-13 Training in label writing, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

2011 Smithsonian Institution Natural History Museum, consultant Animal Mummy and Egyptology installation

2011 Committee member, ICOM Red List for Egypt

2010-11 Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Consultant: “Life and death in the Pyramid Age: the Emory Old Kingdom mummy.”

2010-11 Contributor to the exhibition, North African Rock Art, Poznan Archaeological Museum, Poland

2009 Kom Ombo Museum, consultant (panels, labels, etc.)

2009-15 Lisbon Mummy Project, National Museum of Lisbon (Portugal)

2008-9 Museum of Egyptian Civilization, consultant through UNESCO

2006-9 Center of Science and Industry (COSI), Columbus, Ohio, Consultant: ‘Trail of the Mummy’

2008 Suez Museum, labels

2006 Andrew W. Mellon Art History Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

2006-7 Consultant, Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany: ‘Egyptian Mummies— Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs’, Great State Exhibition of the State of Baden- Württemberg.

2006-7 St. Louis Science Center, Missouri, Consultant on mummy research and display

2006-7 Consultant, Vancouver Mummy Project

2007 Consultant, Baton Rouge Museum.

2006 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Egyptian Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

2005-7 Consultant for the Baton Rouge (Louisiana) Museum’s Egyptian Display

2004-7 Co-Director, Predynastic Gallery Reinstallation, Cairo Museum

2006 Consultant and Co-Curator, American Contributions to Egyptian Archaeology

2003-4 Director, Reinstallation and Display of the Animal Mummy Room, Cairo Museum

2002-pres. Associated with Cairo Museum on different projects (mummy and other displays, labels, panels, database, lecturing on museology, etc)

1998-2002 Project Director, ‘Animal Mummies in the Egyptian Museum’: documenting, studying, conserving, writing a catalogue of the animal mummies and related artefacts at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo

2000-6 Consultant Egyptologist, Gayer-Anderson House Museum, Cairo: documenting, researching, preparing a catalogue, and advising on installation of pharaonic objects

2001 Visiting Scholar, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

1997 Collections Assistant, Bioanthropology Foundation’s Project at Qasr el-Aini, Egypt

1997 Curator and Organizer May He Live Forever: exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, held at the British Council, Cairo, Egypt, and the Cairo Opera House; organizer and co-ordinator of associated events: Yes, Wonderful Things

Archaeology

2005-17 Mortuary Archaeologist, Pacific Lutheran University Mission to the Valley of the Kings

2016-2017 Director, Tomb of Amenmesse/KV63 Project

2016-2017 Co-Director and Mortuary archaeozoologist, Dog Catacombs at North Saqqara Project

2017 Mortuary archaeologist, Middle Kingdom Theban Tombs Project

2017 Archaeoozoologist, West Wadis Project,

2017 Archaeoozoologist, Egyptian-German Mission to Mataraiya

2017 Archaeoozoologist, Joint Expedition to Malqata

2016 Archaeozoologist, Hisn el-Bab

2016 Archaeozoologist, Dimeh

2015 Mortuary Archaeologist, French Institute Mission to Deir el-Medina

2015 Mortuary Archaeologist, New York University Mission to Amheida

2015 Archaeoozoologist, Metropolitan Museum of Art Mission to Malqata

2014 Co-Director, Amarna Bead Project

2014, 2017 Consultant specialist, Animal Mummies, Sharuna Necropolis Project

2014-17 Leather & Technology specialist, Tutankhamun Chariot Leather & Gold Foil Project, German Archaeological Institute in Cairo

2014-15 Field Director, Tomb of Amenmesse/KV63 Project

2014-16 Mummy specialist, Third Intermediate Period Mummy Project

2013-16 Co-Director, Tutankhamun’s Sticks and Staves

2013-16 Archaeozoologist, French Mission to Marea

2013 Mortuary archaeologist, EES Mission to Quesna

2012-16 North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey, Director

2012 Mortuary Archaeologist, Russian Mission to Deir el-Banat

2012 Mortuary archaeologist, Waseda University Mission to West Saqqara

2012-15 Archaeozoologist, South Asasif Conservation Project

2012, 2015 Archaeozoologist, Belgian Mission to Elkab

2012-15 Archaeozoologist, Centre d’Etudes Aléxandrines to Maréa

2012-15 Investigation of Ibis DNA and Evolution

2012 Co-Director and Mortuary archaeozoologist, Dog Catacombs at North Saqqara Project

2012, 2014 Mortuary archaeologist, Swiss Mission to the Valley of the Kings

2012 Mortuary archaeologist, UPenn/Yale/IFA-NYU Mission to Abydos

2011, 2014 Mortuary archaeologist and archaeozoologist, Johns Hopkins University Mission to Mut Temple

2011-15 Archaeozoologist, South Asasif Conservation Project, Luxor

2011 Mortuary archaeologist, UPenn/Yale/Michigan Mission to Abydos

2010 Offerings Specialist, Japanese Mission to the Tomb of Amenhotep III

2010 Consultant, SCA Mission to Ras el-Gisr, Saqqara

2010 Egyptologist and Mummy specialist, Centre for Evolutionary Medicine, Institute for Anatomy, University of Zürich

2010-12 Ancient Egyptian Chariot Project

2010 Archaeozoologist, Waseda University Khufu’s Second Boat Pit at Giza Mission

2010 University of Strasbourg Mission to Baharia Oasis, mortuary specialist

2010 CUNY-Penn/Yale/IFA Tetisheri Project, Abydos, mortuary specialist

2010 Mummy Specialist, New York University Mission to 4-201

2010 Archaeozoologist, IFAO Project to Tabbet el Geish

2009, 2011 Mortuary archaeologist, French Mission at Tibbet el-Gesh (Saqqara)

2009 Archaeozoologist, Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project

2009 Mortuary archaeologist, Japanese Mission to Saqqara

2009-11 Mortuary archaeozoologist, Dog Catacombs at North Saqqara Project

2009-10 Archaeozoologist, Yale University Wadi Natrun Project

2009-11 Mortuary archaeologist, New York University/Institute of Fine Arts Mission to Abydos

2009 Archaeozoologist for Abu Rawash, IFAO

2008-2012 Director, North Kharga Oasis Survey

2008 Archaeozoologist, Gebel el-Asr Mission

2008-2013 Ancient Egyptian Leatherwork Project

2007 Archaeozoologist, Mut Temple Mission

2007 Director, Elephantine Ram Investigation

2007-10 Mortuary Archaeologist, Russian Mission to Deir el-Banat

2007-9 Mortuary archaeologist and faunal analyst, Waseda University Mission to Saqqara

2007 Belgian Mission to TT29, mortuary archaeologist

2007-9 Brussels Museum Mission to el-Qurta

2007 Archaeozoologist, University of Pennsylvania Mission to Saqqara

2006 New York University-University of Chicago Abydos Project: Tetisheri’s Complex

2006-9 Funerary Specialist, Hungarian Theban Tomb Mission

2006-7 Archaeologist and animal mummy specialist, IFAO Abu Rowash Project

2006 Human Mummy specialist and radiographer, UC Berkeley Project at Tell el-Hibeh

2006-7 Archaeologist and archaeozoologist, Tell Borg Project

2006 Archaeozoologist, Leiden University Mission to Saqqara

2006 Mortuary archaeologist, IFAO Project to Tabbet el Geish

2006-11 Mortuary archaeologist, KV63, Tomb of Amenmesse Mission

2006 Archaeozoologist, Macquarie University Mission to Helwan

2005 Belgian Archaeological Mission to el-Hosh

2005 Archaeologist, Brown University-Cairo University Mission at Giza

2005 Egyptologist and Assistant Director, Sacred Animal Necropolis, Saqqara Egypt Exploration Society

2005 Archaeozoologist, Japanese Mission to Saqqara

2005 Archaeologist, Strasbourg University Mission to Bahariya

2005-2007 Egyptologist, Abu Rawash Mission, IFAO

2004-2017 Mortuary archaeologist, Projecto Djehuty to TT 11 and TT 12

2004, 2009 IFAO mission to Denderah, archaeozoologist

2003 Mit Rahineh, ARCE, Zooarachaeologist

2003-15 Mummification studies and archaeozoologist, Polish Expedition to West Saqqara

2003-6 Offerings analyst, Czech Republic Mission to Abu Sir South

2003 Archaeozoologist for the German Institute for Archaeology-Giza Project

2001-7 Co-Director, North Kharga Oasis Survey, surveying and documenting routes, forts, graffiti, cemeteries, water-systems and settlements

2002 Franco-Swiss Mission to Abu Rawash, zooarchaeologist

2001 Hungarian Mission to TT65: Coptic Period funerary archaeologist

2001 IFAO South Saqqara Archaeological Map Project, Tabbet al Guech

2001 University of Pennsylvania/Institute of Fine Arts/Yale Mission to Abydos Ibis Mummy Study

2001 Skeletal Biology Project

2001-6 Sais: Predynastic Period archaeozoologist

2001 Zooarchaeologist, Bir Umm Fawakir, Egypt

1996-2002 Faunal Analyst and Egyptologist at Valley of the Kings-5, Egypt

1995-2012 Director of Zooarchaeology at Kinet Hüyuk (ancient Issus), Turkey

1998-2009 Zooarchaeologist, KV10, Tomb of Amenmesse, Egypt

1998-2010 Zooarchaeologist, Polish-Egyptian Mission to Saqqara, Egypt

2000-2 Zooarchaeologist, Tell Ibrahim Awad

2000 Zooarchaeologist, Czech Republic Mission to Abu Sir South

2000 Zooarchaeologist, Macquarie University Excavations at Saqqara

2000 Radiographer, Study of Meresankh III & King Hor, Cairo Museum

1998 Archaeologist, Giza Plateau Mapping Project, Egypt

1998, 2001 Zooarchaeologist, Hierakonpolis, Egypt

1998 Zooarchaeologist, Quseir el Qadim Fortress Project, Egypt

1997 Mortuary archaeologist, Bioanthropology Foundation’s Project at Qasr el Aini

1997 Faunal Analyst, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dahshur Expedition, Egypt

1997 Zooarchaeologist, American Research Center in Egypt, Mit Rahineh, Egypt

1996 Site Supervisor, Deutches Archaeologische Institut, Buto, Egypt

1996-2005 Zooarchaeologist, KV5, Theban Mapping Project/AmericanUniversity in Cairo

1996 Faunal Analyst, University of California at Berkeley, Tell el Mokkdam Project, Egypt

1995-2009 Zooarchaeologist for National Museum of Scotland Expedition to Sakkara, Egypt

Selected Professional Services and Activities, Including Conference Organisation

2016 Workshop organizer and lecturer, ‘Human Remains in Museums’

2015-16 Organizer, ISAAE 1, ‘1st International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt’

2014-15 Member, Scientific Committee for the XI International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence

2012-17 Co-founder and organiser with A. J. Veldmeijer and J. Sigl, German Archaeological Institute,‘Graduate Annual Research Discussions on Egypt and Nubia(I- IV)’ (Garden) (for graduate students)

2014-16 Member, American Research Center in Egypt’s Conference Organization

2014 Member, Scientific Committee for the International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (XVII World UISPP Congress 2014)

2013 Member of Selection Committee, Shanghai Archaeological Forum

2011-13 Member, Scientific Committee for the Mummy Congress, Brazil

2012-13 Member, Scientific Committee for the International Congress of Egyptologists, Alexandria (Biblioteca Alexandrina & MSA/SCA)

2013-14 Member, Scientific Committee for Egypt at its Origins, Cairo (IFAO)

2012-14 Chair ARCE’s Fellowship Committee

2012 Performing participant in the Art Project directed and conceptualized by Asuncion Molinos, ‘El Matam El Mish-masry (The Non Egyptian Restaurant)’, ArtelLewa art space, Ard el Lewa, Cairo

1999-2012 Area Editor (Pharaonic Egypt) for The Encyclopedia of Ancient History ()

2012-13 Scientific Committee, Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies

2012-13 Review/Advisory Board, Études et Travaux

2012-13 Editorial Board, Plêthos ()

2013 Co-Organizer with ARCE, Institute for Bioarchaeology, and the Ministry of Antiquities: ‘The Bioarchaeology of Egypt’, 31 January-2 February, 2013.

2012 Co-Organizer with A. J. Veldmeijer, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo: ‘First International Chariot Conference’, 1-2 December, 2012

2010-12 Collaborator, Center for Evolutionary Medicine, Zurich

2011 Co-Organizer and host with A. J. Veldmeijer, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo for: ‘Seeing, Showing, & Perceiving: Workshop on Archaeological Illustration’

2011 Co-Organizer and host with K. Duistermaat, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo for: ‘Archaeological Heritage Management (AHM) in Egypt’

2010 ARCE's Nominating Committee

2009-10 Co-Organizer and host for conference with the American Research Center in Egypt and the Institute for Bioarchaeology: ‘Human Remains from Ancient Egypt (CHRAE)’

2009 Consultant, Wadi Environmental Science Centre on children’s books to raise their awareness about environmental issues.

2008-10 Board of Governor Member, American Research Center in Egypt

2009-12 Research Supporting Members Committee, American Research Center in Egypt

2009-10 Chair, Archaeological and Research Expedition Committee, ARC in Egypt

2008-12 Member, Archaeological and Research Expedition Committee, ARC in Egypt

2008-9 Board of Governor’s, American Research Center in Egypt

2008-9 Scientific Committee Member, 1st Bolzano Mummy Conference, Bolzano

2007-8 Member of Search Committee for ‘Lecturer in Egyptology’ for Uppsala University.

2008-13 Executive Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections.

2004-10 Board Member, Comité International Pour Egyptologie (CIPEG)

2004-5 Long Range Planning Committee, American Research Center in Egypt

2003-13 Editorial Review Board of the Annales Service d’Antiquités de l’Egypte.

2009 Member, Scientific Committee: Bolzano Mummy Conference

2003-6 Committee to Save Tyre

2003-4 Supreme Council of Antiquities committee to choose new museum directors

2003-pres. Reviews for tenure and promotion cases in universities in the US and UK.

2003-pres. Supreme Council of Antiquities committee to interview candidates for traveling exhibitions.

2003-9 Committee for Expeditions, American Research Center in Egypt

2003-13 Editorial board member, PalArch, a Dutch scientific internet journal.

2003-9 Library Committee, American Research Center in Egypt

2002-pres. Board of Directors of Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia

2001-pres. Consultant for National Geographic magazine

1993-pres. Advisor and Cairo Correspondent for KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology.

2001-pres. Professional reviews for the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Nature, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Egyptologie, Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Research, HOMO-Journal of Comparative Human Biology (Zurich, Switzerland), Current Research in Egyptology, Prince Klaus Fund, PLOS ONE, the National Geographic Society Grants, Canadian Research Grants, Wellcome Institue grants, British Academy Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities Grants, National Science Foundation Grants, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge.

PUBLICATIONS (since 1995)

Books

2015 (2nd rev. ed.) Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt. Cairo: AUC Press.

2015 Egyptian Bioarchaeology: humans, animals, and the environment, S. Ikram, J. Kaiser and R. Walker, eds. Amsterdam.

2014 with A. J. Veldmeijer. Catalogue of the Footwear in the Coptic Museum (Cairo). Amsterdam.

2013 ed. with A.J. Veldmeijer. Chasing Chariots. Proceedings of the First International Chariot Conference (Cairo 2012). Amsterdam: Sidestone.

2012 ed. with M. Fisher, P. Lacovara, and S. D’Auria. Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile. Cairo: AUC Press.

2010 Ancient Egypt, An Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press.

2010 ed. with Z. Hawass. Thebes and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Kent R. Weeks. Cairo.

2009 ed. with A. M. Dodson. Beyond the Horizon: Studies in Egyptian Art, Archaeology, and History in Honour of Barry J. Kemp 1-2. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities.

2008-12 Area Editor, Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. A printed and online encyclopedia

2008 The Tomb in Ancient Egypt, with A. M. Dodson. London: Thames and Hudson.

2005 ed. Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt. Cairo: AUC Press.

2004 Beloved Beasts: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt. Cairo: Supreme Council of

Antiquities Press (English and Arabic versions).

2003 Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt. London: Longman. Polish version 2006; Czech 2007.

2002 Catalogue Général of the Egyptian Museum: Non-Human Mummies, with N. Iskander.

Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities Press.

1998 The Mummy in Ancient Egypt, Equipping the Dead for Eternity, with A. Dodson, London:

Thames and Hudson, Ltd./American University in Cairo Press.

1997 The Royal Mummies, with A. Dodson, Cairo: Zeitouna & American University Press.

1995 Choice Cuts: Meat Production in Ancient Egypt, Leuven: Peeters Publications.

1995 Egyptian Pyramids, Cairo: Zeitouna.

Peer Reviewed Articles (since 1995)

2017. Richardin, P., S. Porcier, S. Ikram, G. Louarn, and D. Berthet. 2017. ‘Cats, Crocodiles, Cattle, and More: Initial Steps Toward Establishing A Chronology of Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies’, Radiocarbon 59.2: 595-607.

2017. ‘Animals in ancient Egyptian religion: belief, identity, power, and economy’, The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology, U. Albarella, M. Rizzetto, H. Russ, K. Vickers, and S. Viner-Daniels, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 452-65.

2017. Ikram, S. and L. Bertini. ‘Dear, oh deer! The adventures of compiling comparative collections: a cervid skeleton allegedly from Egypt’s Eastern Desert’, Economic Zooarchaeology, Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture, P. Rowley-Conwy, D. Serjeantson, and P. Halstead, eds. Oxford: Oxbow, 291-300.

2016. ‘Princes and Pets: Animal Mummies in the Valley of the Kings’, Valley of the Kings Since Howard Carter, Proceedings of the Luxor Symposium November 4, 2009, Cairo: Ministry of Antiquities, 51-58.

2015. ‘A kidney’s ingenious path to trimillennar preservation: Renal tuberculosis in an Egyptian mummy?’ C. Prates, C. Oliveira, S. Sousa, and S. Ikram. International Journal of Paleopathology 11: 7-11. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.07.002

2015. ‘Fatal force-feeding or Gluttonous Gagging? The death of Kestrel SACHM 2575’, Ikram, S., R. Slabbert, I. Cornelius, A. du Plessis, L. C. Swanepoel, and H. Weber. Journal of Archaeological Science 63: 72-77. 

2015. ‘New Ancient Egyptian Human Mummies from the Valley of the Kings, Luxor: Anthropological, Radiological, and Egyptological Investigations’, Frank Rühli, Salima Ikram, and Susanne Bickel. BioMed Research International, vol. 2015, Article ID 530362, 8 pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/530362.

2015. ‘Speculations on the Role of Animal Cults in the Economy of Ancient Egypt’, Apprivoiser le sauvage/Taming the Wild (CENiM 11), M. Massiera, B. Mathieu, and Fr. Rouffet (eds.). Montpellier: University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, 211-28.

2015 (2014 vol). ‘From Steering Oar to Embalmer’s Tool: Re-Identification of an Artefact’, Sofia Häggman, Salima Ikram, Johanna Bornholm, and Sven Isaksson. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100: 479-83.

2015 (2014 vol). ‘New Kingdom Activities in the Kharga Oasis: the Scribe Userhat Travels West’, C. Rossi and S. Ikram, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100: 474-78.

2015. ‘The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara’, (P. T. Nicholson, S. Ikram, and S. Mills), Antiquity 89.345: 645-61.

2015. ‘Three-dimensional model of an ancient Egyptian falcon mummy skeleton’, A. Du Plessis, R. Slabbert, L. Swanepoel, J. Els, Gerrie J. Booysen, S. Ikram, and I. Cornelius Rapid Prototyping Journal 21.4: 368-72.

2014. ‘Kharga Oasis: a Saharan patchwork of lakes’, with J. Bunbury, Egyptian Archaeology 45: 9-12.

2014. Çakirlar C., Ikram S., Gates, M. ‘New Evidence for Fish Processing in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean: Formalised Epinephelus Butchery in Fifth Century BC Kinet Höyük, Turkey’, Interational Journal of Osteoarchaeology DOI:10.1002/oa.2388.

2014. ‘Purported Medical Diagnoses of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, c. 1300 BC’, with Frank Rühli, HOMO, Journal of Comparative Human Biology 65.1: 51-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2013.08.006,

2013. Rowland, J., S. Ikram, G. J. Tassie, and L. Yeomans. ‘The Sacred Falcon Necropolis of Djedhor(?) at Quesna: Recent Investigations from 2006-2012’, JEA 99: 53-84.

2013 ‘Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis’, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology Heritage Studies (JEMAHS) 1.4: 366-71.

2013. ‘Geoarchaeological and Environmental Work at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, Egypt’, co-author with Paul T. Nicholson, John Harrison, Salima Ikram, Erin Early, Ying Qin, Studia Quaternaria 30.2: 83–89, ISSN (Print) 1641-5558, DOI: 10.2478/squa-2013-0008, December 2013.

2013. ‘Some Thoughts on the Mummification of King Tutankhamun’s Embalming’, Etudes et Travaux 28: 292-301.

2013. ‘Organic chemistry of balms used in the preparation of pharaonic meat mummies’, with K. A. Clark and R. P. Evershed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110.51: 20392-20395.

2013. ‘Killing Man’s Best Friend?’, with Paul Nicholson, Louise Bertini, Delyth Hurley, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 28.2: 48-66.

2013 .‘A Possible Panel of Arachnids in Kharga Oasis (Egypt’s Western Desert)’, Sahara 24: 95-100.

2013. ‘A Curious Case of Canine Burials from Abydos’, Kleine Götter-Grosse Götter: Festschrift für Dieter Kessler zum 65. Geburtstag. M. C. Flossmann-Schütze, M. Goecke-Bauer, F. Hoffmann, A. Hutterer, K. Schlüter, A. Schütze, M. Ullmann, with the cooperation of P. Brose. Vaterstetten: Patrick Brose, 265-71.

2013. ‘Man’s best friend for eternity: dog and human burials in ancient Egypt’, Anthropozoologica 48.2: 299-307.

2013. ‘A Re-Analysis of Part of Prince Amenemhat Q’s Eternal Menu’ Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 48: 119-35.

2012 (for 2011)‘North Kharga Oasis Survey 2007: Preliminary Report, Ain Lebekha and Ain Amur’, with C. Rossi, Mitteilungen der Deutsches Archäeologisches Institut, Kairo 66 (2010): 235-42.

2012 ‘Cats of the pharaohs: genetic comparison of Egyptian cat mummies to their feline contemporaries’, with Jennifer D. Kurushima, Joan Knudsen, Edward Bleiberg, Robert A. Grahn, and Leslie A. Lyons, Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 39, Issue 10, October 2012, Pages 3217-3223.

2012. (pub.; journal date 2011) ‘Three Embalming Caches from Dra Abu el-Naga’, with M. J. Lopez-Grande, Bulletin de L'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 111: 205-28.

2012. ‘Foodstuff placement in ibis mummies and the role of viscera in embalming’, with A. D. Wade, G. Conlogue, R. Beckett, A. Nelson, R. Colten, B. Lawson, and D. Tampieri. Journal of Archaeological Science 39.5: 1642-47.

2011. ‘New Archaeology at Ancient Scetis: Surveys and Initial Excavations at the Monastery of St. John the Little in Wādī al-Naṭrūn’, with D. Brooks-Hedstrom (1), S. J. Davis, T. Herbich, S. Ikram, D. McCormack, M-D. Nenna, and G. Pyke. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 64 (2010): 217-28.

2011 ‘Food and Funerals: Sustaining the Dead for Eternity’, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 20 (Research 2008): 361-71.

2011. ‘Mud Trays in Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Practices’, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 46 (2010): 125-31.

2011. ‘Prostate metastatic bone cancer in an Egyptian Ptolemaic mummy, a proposed radiological diagnosis’ with C. Prates, S. Sousa, C. Oliveira, International Journal of Paleopathology 1: 98-103.

2009. ‘Drawing the World: Petroglyphs from Kharga Oasis’, ArchéoNil 19:67-82.

2008. ‘Preliminary genetic and radiological studies of Ibis mummification in Egypt’, with M. Spigelman, J. Taylor, L. Berger, H. Donoghue, and D. Lambert. In Mummies and Science: World Mummies Research, P. Pena, C. Rodriquez Martin, and M. Rodriguez, eds. Santa Cruz de Tererife: Academia Canaroa de la Historia, 545-52.

2007. Huyge, D., M. Aubert, H. Barnard, W. Claes, J. C. Darnell, M. De Dapper, E. Figari, A. Lebrun-Nélis, and I. Therasse. ‘Lascaux along the Nile’: Late Pleistocene rock art in Egypt. Antiquity, 81.313: Project Gallery []

2007. ‘North Kharga Oasis Survey 2004 Preliminary Report: Ain el-Tarakwa, Ain el-Dabashiya and Darb Ain Amur’, MDAIK 63, pp. 167-84 (with others).

2006. ‘North Kharga Oasis Survey 2003 Preliminary Report: Umm el-Dabadib, MDAIK 62: 279-306 (with others).

2006. Co-author, The American Contributions to Egyptian Archaeology, Cairo: ARC in Egypt.

2005. Endangered archaeology of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt’, Culture Without Context 5: 22-3.

2004. ‘An Early Dynastic Serekh from Kharga Oasis’, JEA 90: 211-15, with Corinna Rossi.

2004. ‘North Kharga Oasis Survey 2001-2002 Preliminary Report: Ain Gib and Qasr el-Sumayra’, MDAIK 60: 69-92.

2004. ‘Victual, Ritual, Or Both? Food Offerings From The Funerary Assemblage Of Isitemkheb’, Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia 1: 87-92.

2003. ‘Barbering the Beardless: A Possible Explanation for the Tufted Hairstyle Depicted in the “Fayum” Portrait of a Young Boy (J. P. Getty 78.AP.262)’, JEA 89: 247-51.

2004. ‘West Saqqara: Animal Bone Report’, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 15: 131-2.

2002. ‘Petroglyphs & Inscriptions Along the Darb Ain Amur, Kharga Oasis’, with C. Rossi, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 129: 142-51.

2001. ‘Excavations at Medieval Kinet, Turkey: A Preliminary Report’, with others, Ancient Near Eastern Studies 38, 2001: 59-139.

2001.‘The Iconography of the Hyena in Ancient Egypt’, Mitteilungen der Deutsches Archäeologisches Institut, Kairo 57: 127-140.

1998. ‘The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project 1993-1995’ section on the fauna, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 83: 17-53.

1995. ‘Did the Ancient Egyptians Eat Biltong?’, Cambridge Journal of Archaeology 5.2: 283-89.

Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed)

2015. ‘Studying Egyptian Mummies in the Field’, in Egyptian Bioarchaeology: humans, animals, and the environment, S. Ikram, J. Kaiser and R. Walker, eds. Amsterdam: Sidestone. 67-76.

2015. “Experimental Archaeology: From Meadow to Em-baa-lming Table”. In: Egyptology in the Present: Experiential and Experimental Methods in Archaeology, edited by Carolyn Graves-Brown. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 53-74.

2014. ‘From the early Old Kingdom to the Badarian. Preliminary report on the 2012 excavation campaign in the settlement area of Elkab’, with Wouter Claes, Stan Hendrickx, Anne Devillers, Elizabeth Hart, Karin Kindermann, Morgan De Dapper, Salima Ikram, Geertrui Storms, Carla Swerts & Dirk Huyge. In The Nile Delta as a Centre of Cultural Interactions Between Upper Egypt and the Southern Levant in the 4th Millennium BC., A. Maczynska, ed. Poznan: Poznan Archaeological Museum, 73-94.

2014. ‘A Collection of Cows: Brief Remarks on the Faunal Material from the South Asasif Conservation Project’, Thebes in the First Millennium BC, E. Pischikova, J. Budka and K. Griffin (eds.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 521-28.

2012 ‘An Eternal Aviary: Bird Mummies from Ancient Egypt’, in Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt, R. Bailleul-LeSuer, ed. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 41-48.

2012 ‘Wanderers in the Desert: The North Kharga Oasis Survey’s Exploration of the Darb ‘Ain Amur’, The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project. C. A. Hope, R. S. Bagnall, and P. Davoli (eds). Oxford: Oxbow Books, 9-18.

2011. ‘The Forgotten Dead: Animal Burials in the Theban Necropolis’, Proceedings of the Colloquium on Theban Archaeology at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Nov. 5, 2009, Z. Hawass, T. A. Bacs, and G. Schreiber (eds.). Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 73-5.

2011. ‘Collecting and Repatriating Egypt’s Past: Toward a New Nationalism’, Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure, and Exclusion in a Global World, H. Silverman, ed. New York: Springer, 141-154.

2009. ‘May they Live Forever: The Examination, Care, and Curation of Egyptian Mummies’, Managing Egypt’s Cultural Heritage: Proceedings of the First Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation Conference on: Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management, L. S. Owens and A. De Trafford (eds.). London: Golden House/Echo Publications, pp. 258-65.

2008. ‘From Rescuing to Exhibition: Conservation of Mummified Remains’, with M. Garcia, S. Maekawa, and G. Lombardi. In Mummies and Science: World Mummies Research, P. Pena, C. Rodriquez Martin, and M. Rodriguez, eds. Santa Cruz de Tererife: Academia Canaroa de la Historia, 693-99.

2009. ‘A Desert zoo: An exploration of meaning and reality of animals in the rock art of Kharga Oasis’, in H. Riemer, F. Förster, M. Herb & N. Pöllath (eds.), Desert animals in the eastern Sahara: Status, economic significance, and cultural reflection in antiquity. Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary ACACIA Workshop held at the University of Cologne December 14-15, 2007. Colloquium Africanum 4. Köln: Heinrich-Barth-Institut 2009: 263-91.

2009. With D. Huyge, ‘Animal Representations in the Late Palaeolithic Art of Qurta (Upper Egypt)’, in H. Riemer, F. Förster, M. Herb & N. Pöllath (eds.), Desert animals in the eastern Sahara: Status, economic significance, and cultural reflection in antiquity. Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary ACACIA Workshop held at the University of Cologne December 14-15, 2007. Colloquium Africanum 4. Köln: Heinrich-Barth Institut 2009: 157-74.

2007. ‘The North Kharga Oasis Survey: A Brief Overview’, Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, J-C. Goyon & C. Cardin, eds. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 953-59.

2006. ‘Portions of an Old Kingdom Offering List Reified’, in The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology, M. Barta, ed. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 167-174.

2006. ‘Through Process to Product: Studying Meat Preservation in Ancient Egypt’, L’apport de l’Égypte à l’histoire des techniques, B. Mathieu, D. Meeks and M. Wissa, eds. Cairo

2005. ‘The Loved Ones: Egyptian Animal Mummies as Cultural and Environmental Indicators’, Archaeozoology of the Near East, H. Buitenhuis, A. M. Choyke, L. Martin, L. Bartosiewicz, and M. Mashkour (eds). Groningen: ARC, pp. 240-48.

2003. ‘The Animal Mummy Project at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo’, Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Z. Hawass, ed. Cairo: AUC, 235-39.

2002. ‘Bones, Blood & Butchers: Ethnoarchaeology & Ancient Egyptian Butchery’, Moving Matters: Ethnoarchaeology in the Near East, W. Wendrich and G. van der Kooij (eds). Leiden: 75-90.

2002. ‘Mud Matters: Domestic Silt Technology in Upper Egypt’, Moving Matters: Ethnoarchaeology in the Near East, W. Wendrich and G. van der Kooij (eds). Leiden: 159-70.

Chapters in Books

2015. ‘Preface’, Maternité et petite enfance en Egypte ancienne, A. Marshall, Paris: Editions du Rocher.

2015. ‘Zooarchaeological Remains’, Bir Umm Fawakhir 3: Excavations 1999 - 2001. Carol Meyer with contributions by Lisa A. Heidorn, Salima Ikram, Richard L. Jaeschke, Thomas C. Roby, and Wendy Smith.  Oriental Institute Publications 141.  Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 91-96. 

2014.‘Why Leather in Egyptian Chariots?’, with A. J. Veldmeijer, in Why Leather? the Material and Cultural Dimensions of Leather, S. Harris and A. J. Veldmeijer (eds.). Leiden: Sidestone, 115-22.

2014. ‘Introduction’ and general editor, Émile Prisse d'Avennes. Egyptian Art. Cologne: Taschen.

2014. ‘A Preliminary Note on the Faunal Remains from the South Asasif Conservation Project’, Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis, Thebes, E. Pischikova, ed. Cairo: AUC, 263-68.

2014. ‘Interpreting Ancient Egyptian Material Culture’, A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art, M. K. Hartwig, ed. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 175-88.

2014 ‘Faunal Analyses’ with L. Bertini, in Sais II: The Prehistoric Period, P. Wilson, G. Gilbert, and G. Tassie (eds.), London: Egypt Exploration Society, 133-39.

2013 ‘Basic Archaezoological Report on Kom Helul Remains’, Working in Memphis: the Production of Faience at Roman Period Kom Helul, P. T. Nicholson, ed. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 181-84.

2013 ‘The Sacred Ram Mummies of Khnum from Elephantine in Egypt’, in Elisabeth Delange and Horst Jaritz (eds.), Der Widderfriedhof des Chnumtempels, Mit Beiträgen zur Archäozoologie und zur Materialkunde, AV 105, Elephantine XXV, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. p. 214-222, pls. 75-81.

2013. Rossi, C. and S. Ikram. ‘Evidence of desert routes across northern Kharga (Egypt’s Western Desert)’. Frank Förster & Heiko Riemer (eds.) Desert Road Archaeology in Ancient Egypt and Beyond. Africa Praehistorica 26. Cologne: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 265-82.

2013. ‘The Mummification of Djau’, in N. Kanawati, with contributions by E. Alexakis, A. McFarlane, M. Schultz, S. Shafik, E. Thompson, N. Victor and R. Walker Deir el-Gebrawi III, the Southern Cliff: The Tomb of Djau/Shemai and Djau. Oxford: Oxbow, 60-63.

2012 ‘Leatherwork at Amarna’, with A. J. Veldmeijer, in F. Seyfried (ed.), In the Light of Amarna, Berlin: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, 136-42.

2012. ‘From Food to Furniture: Animals in Ancient Nubia’, Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile, M. Fisher, P. Lacovara, S. Ikram, and S. D’Auria, eds. Cairo: AUC Press, 210-28.

2012. ‘Ballana’, with P. Lacovara, Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile, M. Fisher, P. Lacovara, S. Ikram, and S. D’Auria, eds. Cairo: AUC Press, 354-55.

2012. ‘Elephantine and Aswan’, with C. Knoblauch, Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile, M. Fisher, P. Lacovara, S. Ikram, and S. D’Auria, eds. Cairo: AUC Press, 406-10.

2010. ‘Archaeozoological Remains’, Saqqara IV: The Funerary Complex of Nyankhnefertem’, K. Mysliwiec and K. O. Kuraszkiewicz, eds. Warsaw: Neriton, 122-25.

2009 ‘Embalmed Victual’, Hungarian Excavations in the Theban Necropolis: A Celebration of 102 Years of Fieldwork in Egypt, Bacs, T. A, Z. I. Fabian, G. Schreiber, and L. Török (eds.). Budapest: Lorand University: 91.

2009. ‘Un Visage Pour l’Éternité’, 100,000 ans de la Beauté, P. Picq (ed.). Paris: Galimard, pp. 55-57.

2009. ‘Funerary Food Offerings’, Abusir XIII, Abusir South 2. Tomb Complex of the Vizier Qar, his Sons Qar Junior and Senedjemib, and Iykai, M. Barta (ed.). Prague: Dryada/Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University, pp. 294-98.

2007. ‘Faunal Remains’, Quseir: An Ottoman and Napoleonic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt, C. Le Quesne, ed. Cairo: American University in Cairo, pp. 286-95.

2007. ‘Tiermumien im Alten Ägypten’, Ägptische Mumien, Unsterblichkeit im Land der Pharaonen, D. von Recklinghausen (ed.). Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern. 292-310.

2007. ‘Afterlife beliefs and burial customs’, The Egyptian World, T. Wilkinson, ed. London, 340-51.

2006. ‘Faunal Remains from the Waseda University Excavations at North Saqqara’, in Japanese and English in The Journal of Egyptian Studies (Japan), pp. 46-49; 109-111.

2003. ‘A Preliminary Study Of Zooarchaeological Changes Between The Bronze And Iron Ages At Kinet Höyük, Hatay’, Identifying Changes: The Transition from Bronze to Iron Ages in Anatolia and its Neighbouring Regions, B. Fischer, H. Genz, E. Jean, and K. Koroglu, eds. Istanbul: Türk Eskiçag Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 283-294.

2003. ‘Typhonic Bones: A Ritual Deposit from Saqqara?’ in Behaviour Behind Bones: The zooarchaeology of religion, ritual, status, and identity, O'Day, S. J., Van Neer, W. and Ervynck, A. (editors), Oxbow Books, Oxford UK, 41-6.

2002. ‘The History of the Collection of the Animal Mummies at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo’, with A. Helmi, in Egyptian Museum Collections, M. Eldamaty and M. Trad, eds. Supreme Council of Antiquities Press, 563-68.

2000. Introduction to Fellahin of Upper Egypt (by W. S. Blackman), Cairo: AUC Press, v-xiii.

2000. ‘Meat Production’, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies, Cambridge, P. Nicholson and I. Shaw, eds., 656-71.

2000. ‘Faunal Remains in KV5’, KV5: Preliminary Report, Cairo: AUC Press, 127-33.

1996. ‘Faunal Report’, in Road Archaeology in the Middle Nile, M. Mallinson, L. Smith, S. Ikram, C. Le Quesne, and P. Sheehan, London: SARS, 21-22.

Festschrifts

2015. “An Enigmatic Granite Fragment in the Gayer-Anderson Museum, (Beit al-Kritliyya) Cairo”, Joyful in Thebes: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Betsy M. Bryan, R. Jasnow and K. M. Cooney, eds. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press, 229-32.

2014 ‘Canine Cults in Kharga Oasis: the Dogs of Dabashiya’, Le Myrte et la rose. Mélanges offerts à Françoise Dunand par ses élèves, collègues et amis, G. Tallet et Chr. Zivie-Coche (éds.), Montpellier, Presses Universitaires de Montpellier, Collection "CENIM": 349-55.

2011. ‘A Ceramic Divinity for a Divine Ceramicist’, in D. Aston, B. Bader, C. Gallorini, P. Nicholson, S. Buckingham (eds.), Under the Potter's Tree. Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday. OLA 204. Leuven: Peeters: 513-20.

2010. ‘A Pasha’s Pleasures: R.G. Gayer-Anderson And His Pharaonic Collection In Cairo’, Offerings to the Discerning Eye: An Egyptological Medley in Honor of Jack A. Josephson, Sue D'Auria, ed. Leiden: Brill, 177-186.

2010. ‘Crocodiles: Guardians of the Gateways’, Thebes and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Kent R. Weeks, Z. Hawass and S. Ikram, eds. Cairo: SCA, 85-98.

2010. ‘A Plaster Head in Cairo’, Millions of Jubilees: Studies in Honor of David P. Silverman. Z. Hawass and J. H. Wegner, eds. Cairo: SCA, 249-52.

2010. ‘An Amarna Period Statue Fragment in the Gayer-Anderson Museum in Cairo’, in S. Ikram and A. M. Dodson (eds.) Beyond the Horizon: Studies in Egyptian Art, Archaeology, and History in Honour of Barry J. Kemp 1. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, pp. 181-84.

2007. ‘A Fragment from a Lost Monument of Amenirdis I in the Gayer-Anderson Museum’, in Servant of Mut: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Fazzini, S. D’Auria, ed. Leiden: Brill, pp.126-30.

2007. ‘Animals in a Ritual Context at Abydos, A Synopsis’, The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt: Essays in honor of David B. O’Connor, Z. Hawass and J. Richards, eds. Cairo: SCA, 417-32.

2005. ‘A Monument in Miniature: The Eternal Resting Place of a Shrew’, Structure and Significance, P. Janosi, ed. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 335-340.

2003. ‘Hunting Hyenas in the Middle Kingdom: the Appropriation of a Royal Image?’, Hommages à Fayza Haikal, N. Grimal, A. Kamel, and C. May-Sheikholeslami, eds. Cairo: IFAO, 141-48.

Encyclopaedia Entries

A list can be provided upon request. Encyclopedias to which I have contributed include:

The Cambridge World Prehistory, 1, C. Renfrew and P. Bahn, eds. Cambridge, 279-94.

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Huebner. Oxford/New York: Wiley-Blackwell, print and web.

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Remains and Legislations, N. Marquez Grant and L. Fibiger, eds. London: Routledge.

Encyclopedia of African History. Ed. Kevin Shillington. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 3 vols.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt , OUP, Press, D. B. Redford, ed.

Popular (i.e. non-peer reviewed) Journals

2017. ‘Karavanen, kastelen en qanats: verkenning van de Charga Oase’, Mehen (2016/2017) Essays over het oude Egypte, Leiden: Mehen, 26-39.

2016. ‘A Mini-Menagerie: Animal Mummies at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery’, KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 27.1: 68-73.

2015. ‘An Eternal Zoo: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt’, Actual Archaeology Magazine (Anatolia), 13, special issue: From Liberty to Captivity: Animals once they were Gods, 58-67.

2014. ‘Animal Mummies’, National Geographic Extreme Explorer 8.2: 19-23.

2014. ‘The State of Egypt’s Heritage’, KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 25.3: 17-21.

2013. ‘In Memoriam—Barbara Mertz’, American Research Center in Egypt Bulletin 203: 62-63.

2013. ‘Collectors: Their Contribution to Looting’, Bulletin of the ARC in Egypt 202: 33.

2013.‘Looting and Land Grabbing: the Current Situation in Egypt’, with Monica Hanna, Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 202: 34-9.

2012 .‘A Palace for Pigeons: Restoring a Roman Dovecote in the Kharga Oasis’, with N. Warner, Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 201: 1-6.

2012.‘The Lisbon Mummy Project’, KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, 23.4: 55-59.

2012. ‘Creatures of the Gods: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt’, Anthro Notes 31.1: 1-5. (Smithsonian Institution).

2012. ‘Preliminary Report of the Egyptian Museum Chariot Project (EMCP)’, with A. J. Veldmeijer, Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 200 (Spring): 7-11.

2008. ‘Animal Mummies from Abu Rawash’, with A. Charron. KMT 19.2: 34-41.

2008. ‘Egypt’s Frontier Oasis: A Visual Journey’, Archaeology 61.6: 36-41.

2008. ‘New Display for the Oldest Objects: the Predynastic Period in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo’, (with P. Lacovara), Kmt: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 19.1: 36-37.

2008. ‘The North Kharga Oasis Survey’, Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 193: 28-31.

2007. ‘Tutankhamun’s Missing Ribs’, with D. Forbes and J. Kamrin, KMT 18.1: 50-56.

2007. ‘Mummified Menageries: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies’, British Institute of Radiology News 12-13.

2006. ‘Paths, Petroglyphs, and Piety: the North Kharga Oasis Survey 2006 Season’, Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 190: 18-23.

2005. ‘Brief Report of the North Kharga Oasis Survey’s 2005 Season’, Bull. ARCE 187: 8-11.

2003. ‘An Expert Analysis of the Principles of Islam as Encountered by the Emersons’, Amelia Peabody’s Egypt, Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread, eds. New York, 100-109.

2002-03. ‘Surveying the North Kharga Oasis’, with C. Rossi, KMT 13.4: 72-79.

2002-03. ‘Interview with Zahi Hawass about Rescuing Egypt’s Stolen Treasures’, KMT13.4: 18-22.

2001. ‘The Animal Mummy Project at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo’, KMT12.4: 18-25.

2000. ‘An Overlooked Occupant of the Royal Cache: The Pet Gazelle of One of the Pinudjem Ladies’, KMT 11.2: 58-61.

2000. ‘Animals for the Afterlife’, Egypt Revealed 1.1, 2000: 55-61.

1997. ‘An Interview with Zahi Hawass’, KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology 8.2: 16-25.

1996. with D. Forbes, ‘KV5: Retrospects and Prospects’, KMT 7.1: 38-40, 42, 44, 46, 48-9.

1996. ‘New Discovery on the Giza Plateau: Unique Structure Revealed in front of Khafre Pyramid’, KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 7.3: 18-19.

1994-pres. Regular column: ‘Nile Currents’, in KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt (quarterly).

1994. ‘Food for Eternity’, KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 5.1 (24-33) and 5.2 (53-60; 75-77).

Book Reviews:

List available upon request.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (since 1995)

‘Sacred Animals at Saqqara’, Saqqara Day Symposium, Leiden, 17 June, 2017

‘Feeding Pharaoh and His Minions: A Feast for All!’, From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: themes in European zooarchaeology 1-3 June, Lisbon

‘The Cult of Horus & Thoth: A Study of Egyptian Animal Cults in Theban Tomb 11, 12, and 366’, Archaeozoology Studies of Western Asia, Cyprus 2017

‘Bits & Bobs: The Amenmesse Project’s Recent Work at KV10 & KV63, American Research Center in Egypt Conference, Kansas City, April 2017

‘Organising Space: The Interaction of Khargan Rock Art With the Oasis Landscape’, Rock Art and (Non Textual) Graffiti in Context, German Archaeological Institute in Cairo Conference, 11-12 December 2016

‘Practical, Material, Spiritual, Emotional, and Economic: the Role of Animals and Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt’, Lecture as part of the series for Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed, at the Johannes Gutenberge Universität, Mainz, November 2016

‘Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies: A Window into Human-Animal Relationships’, University of Heidelberg, November 2016

‘A Collection of Cattle: the Archaeozoology of South Asasif’, Thebes in the First Millennium, Luxor, September 2016

‘Fat Ladies, Thin Men, Pointed Headed People, and Body Parts: Humans in the Rock Art of the North Kharga Basin’, ‘International Conference: Whatever Happened to the People? Humans and Anthropomorphs in the Rock Art of Northern Africa’, The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences and the Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels, September 2015.

‘Creatures, Kings and Caravans: the Results of the North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey (NKODAAS)’, International Congress of Egyptologists IX, Florence, August 2015.

‘What Are the Tracks For? Alum Exploitation in the Kharga Oasis’, Dakhleh Oasis Project Conference 8, Archaeology of the Egyptian Western Desert New Ideas and Concepts, Cracow, July 2015.

‘Tutankhamun’s Sticks and Staves’, First International Tutankhamun Conference, Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo, May 2015

‘Climate Change in Kharga Oasis’, American Research Center in Egypt 2015 Conference, Houston

‘From Tutankhamun to Tano: Chariot Leather in the New Kingdom’, German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, with A. J. Veldmeijer, March 2015

‘Connecting Kharga to Dakhla: the Darb Ain Amur Through Time’, Oasis Magna: Kharga and Dakhla in Antiquity, conference at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU September 18-20, 2014

Egypt Exploration Society Study Day on Ancient Animals

The 8th International Mummy Congress, Rio de Janeiro, August 2013: The Bulls’ Tale: Two Bovid Mummies at the Smithsonian Institution’s Natural History Museum

Colloquium on African Rock Art and the Pan African Renaissance, Addis Ababa (sponsored by the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization and the Trust for African Rock Art), May 2013: ‘An Introduction to the Rock Art of Egypt’

American Research Center in Egypt Conference, Cincinnati, April 2013: ‘Churches & Chert: Fresh Discoveries from Kharga Oasis’

Thebes in the First Millennium BC Conference, October 2012, Luxor: ‘Brief Remarks on the Faunal Material from the South Asasif Conservation Project’ The First International Chariot Conference, December 2012, Cairo: ‘The Tano Chariot and the Egyptian Museum Chariot Project’

Jornadas Conmemorativas XXV Aniversario 1987-2012, October 2012, Madrid: ‘Mummies and Mummification in Thebes from the New Kingdom Onward’ dOCUMENTA (13), On Seeds and Multispecies Intra-Action: Disowning Life, September 2012:

‘Divine Interactions: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt’

American Research Center in Egypt Conference, April 2012: ‘Pigeon Towers, Pots, and Precipitation: Restoration and Exploration in North Kharga Oasis’

Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods, seminar held in association with the launch of the ‘Emergency Red List for Egypt, 7 February 2012, 'Creating a Red List for Egypt: the experts' work, cooperating at the national and international levels'.  

 La céramique du désert occidental d’Égypte de la fin du néolithique à l’époque arabe. La Marmarique, le Wadi Natroun et les oasis de Siwa, Baharyia, Dakhla et Kharga, Table Ronde, IFAO, December 19-20 2011: ‘An Overview of the Sites of North Kharga Oasis’,

Seeing, Showing, & Perceiving: Workshop on Archaeological Illustration, NVIC-AUC (14 November 2011): ‘Issues and Concerns in Archaeological Illustration’

Archaeological Heritage Management (AHM) in Egypt NVIC-AUC (November 22, 2011): ‘The problems of Archaeological and Natural Heritage Management in the Western Desert’ American Research Center in Egypt Conference, April 2011: Far Horizons: New Sites in the Kharga Oasis

Seventh International Mummy Congress, San Diego (June 12-16, 2011): A Historical Perspective on the Display of Egypt’s Royal Mummies

Seventh International Mummy Congress, San Diego (June 12-16, 2011): Sheep and Cats and Cows, Oh My!: Experimental Mummification

Seventh International Mummy Congress, San Diego (June 12-16, 2011): Macroscopic Investigation of Mummies

Commission International pour Egyptologie Conference, Montepulciano (Italy), 2010 : ‘The Crocodile Museum at Kom Ombo’

International Council for Archaeozoology Conference, Paris, 2010: ‘Man's Eternal Best Friend: Dog and Human Burials in Egypt’ 

Symposium: ‘Valley of the Kings Since Howard Carter’, Luxor 2009

Princes and Pets: Animal Mummies in the Valley of the Kings

Symposium: ‘Hungarian Excavations in the Theban necropolis, a Celebration of 102 Years of Fieldwork in Egypt’, Cairo 2009

Sacred Animals in the Theban Necropoleis

Dakhla Oasis Project VIth International Conference, Lecce, 2009: Recent Explorations Along the Darb Ain Amur

American Research Center in Egypt Annual Conference, Dallas, 2009: Exploring the Darb Ain Amur

CIPEG Conference, Atlanta, 2009: Digging and Displaying: Different Modes of Museum Work

Spurlock Museum, Indiana, Conference on Contested Heritage, 2008: Pharaohs & Foreigners: Using the Past to Promote Egyptian Economy & Nationalism’

American Research Center in Egypt Annual Conference, Toledo, OH 2007: ‘Gayer-Anderson’sEgyptian Collection in Cairo’

Centro Italiano Studi Egittologici, Imola (Italy), 2007 ‘Wayfarers and Wanderers in North Kharga’

Poster presentation for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge’s Conference on Conservation of Painted Surfaces, 2007

‘Animals in the Desert: An Exploration of Meaning and Reality of Petroglyphs in Kharga Oasis’, Desert Animals in the Eastern Sahara, Their Position, Significance and Cultural Reflection in Antiquity, Cologne, 2007

‘Sixth International Mummy Congress, 2007, Lanzarote. Congress paper presented: ‘Preliminary results of genetic & radiological study of Egyptian Ibis mummies’

Keynote Speaker and Panelist in Mummy Conservation & Display, paper given: ‘To Dig and To Display: The treatment and display of mummies in Egypt’

Speaker in Symposium “Evidence-based Methodology in Mummy Research”, paper given: ‘To Unwind or to Invade? An Evaluation of Different Techniques Used to Study Egyptian Mummies’

Museum of London Conference (London), 2007 on The Value of Human Remains in Museum Collections: “The History and Future of Human Remains in Egyptian Museums”

Third German-American Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, American Philosophical Society, (Philadelphia) 2006, as respondent. The Making of Memory: Space, Performance, Appropriation.

Dakhleh Oasis Project 5th International Congress, Cairo, 2006: ‘The North Kharga Oasis Survey’

American Research Center in Egypt Conference, New Jersey, 2006: ‘The North Kharga Oasis Survey’s 2006 Season’

Conference Graves and Scholars, Warsaw, 2005: ‘Food & Funerals, Sustaining the Dead for Eternity’

Commission International pour Egyptologie Conference, Alexandria, 2005: ‘Cooperation between Universities, Research Institutes and Museums: The Animal Mummy Room and the Predynastic Project at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo’

American Research Center in Egypt Conference, Boston, 2005: A Sethian Deposit at Saqqara?

International Congress of Egyptology, Grenoble, 2004: North Kharga Oasis Survey: An Overview

International Congress of Mummy Studies, Turin, 2004: Mummies from TT11 and 12

Conference on Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology, Charles University, Prague, 2004: An Old Kingdom Offering List Reified

Genomics & Society: The Future Health of Africa, Cairo, 2004, Archaeology Plenary Lecture: Egypt and Africa: Links Through the Western Desert

PalArch Foundation Symposium, Teylers Museum, the Netherlands, 2004: Becoming Divine: Death in Kharga Oasis in the Roman Period

L’Apport de l’Egypte à l’Histoire des Techniques, IFAO 2003: Food for Eternity: Meat Preservation in Ancient Egypt

American Research Center in Egypt Conference, 2003: North Kharga Oasis Survey

American Research Center in Egypt Conference, 2002: Recent field-work in Kharga Oasis

Seti I Conference, 2002: The Study and Documentation of the Tomb of Seti I, KV 17

International Council of Zooarchaeology Conference, 2002: A Ritual(?) Deposit from Saqqara

Archaeozoology of South Western Asia Conference, 2002: Animal Mummies

Invited Keynote Speaker, International Congress on Mummification, Nuuk, Greenland, 2001: ‘Death & Burial in Ancient Egypt: New Discoveries from Egypt’

Conference Paper, American Research Center in Egypt, Berkeley, CA 2000: ‘Experimental Archaeology and Egyptology: the Issue of Mummification’

International Congress of Egyptology, Cairo, 2000: ‘The Animal Mummy Project’

Conference Paper, ARC in Egypt, Chicago, IL 1999:‘An Update on the Animal Mummy Project’

Moving Matters: Ethnoarchaeology in the Near East, Netherlands Institute for Archaeology, Cairo, 1998: ‘Bones, Blood and Butchers: Ethnoarchaeology and Ancient Egyptian ButcheryTechnology’

Poster session: ‘Mud Matters: Domestic Ceramic Technology at Gebel el-Haridi’

Conference Paper, American Research Center in Egypt, LA, CA, 1998: ‘Hyenas: Hunters or Hunted?’

Conference Paper, Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean, American University in Cairo, 1997: ‘Pharaohs and Physicians: The Medical Heritage of Ancient Egypt’.

Conference Paper, American Research Center in Egypt, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1997: ‘Project for Preserving & Recording the Animal Mummy Collection in the Cairo Museum’.

INVITED LECTURES

I have been invited to speak at several universities and museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the National Museum of Archaeology in Lisbon, the Bologna Museum, Cairo Museum, Luxor Museum, Singapore National Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Raleigh (North Carolina) Art Museum, Albany Museum of Art, Milwaukee Museum, Bowers Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Walter’s Art Gallery, J. P. Getty Museum, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Western Australian Museum, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Cambridge University, University of Bristol, Princeton University, Tulane University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Wellesley, and various other universities, and have twice been invited to be the Kress Lecturer for the American Institute of Archaeology.

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, & GRANTS (excluding internal university grants)

2017 Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society, for work in KV10/KV63

2017 Institute for Bioarchaeology, ‘Bioarchaeology at KV10/KV63’,

2017 Hasan Dana Grant for Archaeological Research,

2015 International Committee on Humans and Rock Art, conference grant

2015 Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society, for work in Kharga Oasis

2015 Institute for Bioarchaeology, Grant for archaeozoology at TT 11-12

2014 Sociedad Geografica Española, Award for Investigation and Research

2014 Neues Museum Berlin, Grant to work on Amarna Beads

2014 Institute for Bioarchaeology, Grant to work on KV 63 material

2014 Institute for Bioarchaeology, Grant for archaeozoology at TT 11-12

2014 National Endowment for the Humanities, co PI

2014 Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society,

2013 Antiquities Endowment Fund, American Research Center in Egypt for Recording and Preserving Remains from the Darb Ain Amur,

2013 Smithsonian Institution, Associate Research Fellow

2013 Institute for Bioarchaeology, Grant for archaeozoology

2013 Annual American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) award for best book in the Archaeology and Anthropology for Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile, edited by Marjorie M. Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Salima Ikram, and Sue D’Auria, with photographs by Chester Higgins Jr.

2013 Honorable Mention in the 2013 Dartmouth Medal for most outstanding reference work for The Encyclopedia of Ancient History; S. Ikram was Area Editor for Pharaonic Egypt

2012 Publication Preparation Grant from the Archaeological Institute of America

2012 Excavation Grant for the North Kharga Oasis Survey from the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society Donation Fund

2012 Wenner-Gren Foundation for the conference: The Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt January 31-February 2, 2013

2011 Grant to attend the Seventh International Mummy Congress, San Diego (June 12-16, 2011), from the Zentrum für Evolutionäre Medizin, Zurich

2011 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, grant for work on the Lisbon Mummy Project

2011-15 Human Frontier Science Organization, collaborative grant for ‘Ancient Ibis Mummies from Egypt: DNA Evolution’, with David Lambert (PI; Griffith School of Environment and School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia)

2011 Antiquities Endowment Fund, American Research Center in Egypt for the North Kharga Oasis Survey conservation and restoration program

2011 Institute of Bioarchaeology grant to work at KV63.

2010 VEWA (Association of Educative and Scientific Authors) to attend a rock art conference in Brussels.

2010 Research Grant, American University in Cairo (Field Season in Kharga Oasis)

2010 Smithsonian Institution, Associate Research Fellow

2009 Research Development Grant, AUC (ancient Egyptian leatherwork).

2008 Travel Grants while a Fellow, ISAW, NY (Kharga Oasis)

2007 Antiquities Endowment Fund, ARC in Egypt for the North Kharga Oasis Survey

2007-8 National Endownment for the Humanities/ARC in Egypt, Fellowship to study Rock Art

2007 Percy Sladen Trust, Grant for Kharga Oasis Prehistory Project

2007 Chair Development Grant, American University in Cairo

2006 Fisher Foundation Grant for publication work on Kharga Oasis

2005 Andrew W. Mellon Art History Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (work to be conducted in 2006).

2005 Antiquities Endowment Fund, American Research Center in Egypt for the North Kharga Oasis Survey Season in 2006.

2005 Barbara Mertz Award (to work on the Qasr el-Aini collection)

2004 Antiquities Endowment Fund, American Research Center in Egypt for the North Kharga Oasis Survey Season in 2005.

2004 Grant from the Roman Society for the North Kharga Oasis Survey.

2004 Summer Research Grant, American University in Cairo (Kharga and Petroglyphs)

2003 National Geographic Research Grant (CRE), North Kharga Oasis Survey

2002 Proctor & Gamble Education Award, for the Animal Mummy Project

2002 Seven Pillars of Wisdom Fund, North Kharga Oasis Survey

2002 National Geographic Research Grant (CRE), North Kharga Oasis Survey

2002 Institute for Bioarchaeology (USA) for Animal Mummy Project

2001 Smithsonian Institution, Visiting Scholar Fellowship

2001 Seven Pillars of Wisdom Fund, North Kharga Oasis Survey

2000-3 The Bioanthropology Foundation (UK) for conservation of Animal Mummies & associated artefacts

2000 The Bioanthropology Foundation (UK) for conservation of Animal Mummies & associated artefacts

2000 Seven Pillars of Wisdom Fund for the North Kharga Oasis Survey

1998 The Bioanthropology Foundation (UK) for work on Animal Mummies

1997 The Bioanthropology Foundation (UK) for work on Animal Mummies

MEDIA

Several interviews on radio since 1993 (BBC Radio 2, 4, and world service; CNN; NPR; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Voice of American; Egyptian English Radio; National Geographic World Talk Radio); many appearances on television (RAI, Arte programmes, National Geographic, History Channel; Discovery Channel; NOVA; PBS; Travel Channel; Russian State TV; Japanese Television; RTP2, Portugal; Channel 4 UK; BBC; ITV; Greek Television); featured in several articles on the internet as well as in print (Archaeology (March/Arpil 2004) 30-35; Focus 136, 2004: 62-7, AUC Today (Summer 2004 ) 10-12; Hemispheres, (June 2005), AUC Today (Summer 2004 ) 15, (2006National Geographic (November 2009), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2013))

LANGUAGES

Reading knowledge of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Urdu, Middle Egyptian.

Basic knowledge of colloquial Egyptian Arabic and Latin.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, HONOURS, and AWARDS

2017 American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2014-pres. Spanish Geographical Society Annual Award (Archaeology) and membership

2013-pres. Elected Corresponding Member, Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Belgium

1986-pres. The Egypt Exploration Society, London, UK

1997-pres. The American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo/San Antonio

1997-pres. Elected Society for Women Geographers, Washington, DC

1998 -pres. International Council for Archaeozoology

2001-pres. Elected Fellow International, The Explorers’ Club, New York

2004-pres. Member of International Committee of Museums (ICOM)

2004-9 Board Member, Commission International pour Egyptologie (CIPEG)

2007 -pres. Elected Corresponding Member to the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo

2010 -pres. Elected Corresponding Member to the Archaeological Institute of America

2007 Excellence in Research Award, American University in Cairo

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