Professor Salima Ikram is one of the world’s leading authorities on animals in Ancient Egypt, and has published several books about the culture, which she has loved since childhood. Dr Ikram currently holds the post of Professor of Egyptology at Cairo’s American University, and frequently appears in magazines and on television to discuss Egypt. She is also a grantee of the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1965, Dr Ikram studies Egyptology and Archaeology at Pennsylvania’s Bryn Mawr College. She then earned a M.Phil. and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Ikram has published a number of books on both Egyptology and the previously little-known area of animal mummies, including Divine Creatures, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt and Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt. She has also appeared on high-profile television channels such as Channel 4 and the History Channel. In print Dr Ikram is a regular contributor to Egypt Today and Kmt. Career highlights have includes being a visiting scholar at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), a consultant Egyptologist at Giza, Saqqara, Abu Sir, Valley of the Kings, and Co-Director of the North Kharga Oasis Survey. Dr Ikram recently filmed a video for Heritage Key on the role of animals in Egyptian religion.
