The Ancient Egyptians and the Natural World: Flora, Fauna, and Science

About

Salima Ikram is Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo and has excavated extensively in Egypt as well as in Turkey. She has directed the Animal Mummy Project the Amenmesse Project (KV10/KV63) the North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Project and headed the archaeozoology team at Kinet Hoyuk in Turkey. She has a variety of research interests especially the interaction between humans and animals ancient Egyptian foodways rock art death and mummies of both humans and animals. She has published extensively both for scholarly and non-specialist audiences as well as for children and is currently collaborating on the publication of the animal mummies in the Museo Egizio Turin. Ikram is a member of the MAHES (Momies Animales et Humaines EgyptienneS) project. Jessica Kaiser is a bioarchaeologist currently finalizing her PhD in Human Osteology and Egyptian Archaeology at the University of California Berkeley. She spent ten years as the head osteologist of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project/AERA where she also taught osteology. She has worked as an archaeologist and human remains specialist in Upper and Middle Egypt Sweden and the US. She has published on her work at Giza. Stéphanie Porcier is an Egyptologist and Archeozoologist specializing in the study of animals in ancient Egypt and especially animal mummies. She directs the inter- and multidisciplinary program MAHES (French acronym for Egyptian Animal and Human Mummies) which aims to study the most important collection of animal mummies outside Egypt kept at the Musée des Confluences Lyon (France). Since 2017 she has conducted research on baboon mummies from the Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud as part of the Baboon Project. She has published several scientific papers on animals (worship representation food and mummy analysis) and is an authority on the Mnevis bull.