Published works by Dr. Salima Ikram
Books
2010. Ancient Egypt, An Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2010. edited with Z. Hawass. Thebes and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Kent R. Weeks. Cairo:
Supreme Council of Antiquities.
2009. edited 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.
2008-2011. 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: American University in
Cairo.
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.
Children’s Books
2004. A Zoo for Eternity: Animal Mummies from the Cairo Museum. Cairo: Supreme Council of
Antiquities Press, (English and Arabic versions).
1997. Egypt: Land and People, Cairo: Hoopoe Books.
1997. The Pharaohs, Cairo: Hoopoe Books.
1997. Egyptology, Cairo: Hoopoe Books.
1998. Gods and Temples, Cairo: Hoopoe Books.
1998. Mummies and Tombs, Cairo: Hoopoe Books.
Articles and Chapters in Books
2012 ‘Creatures of the Gods: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt’, Anthro Notes 31.1: 1-5. (Smithsonian Institution).
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.
2012. ‘Nile Currents’, Kmt: A Modern Journal of Archaeology
2012. ‘Pottery Puzzles’, Dig (January): 20-21.
2012.’And the Bones Say’, Dig (January): 22-24.
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, and C. Oliveira, International
Journal of Paleopathology 1: 98-103.
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. ‘Beds for Gods’, Calliope (August): 48.
2011. ‘What Happened to Osiris?’, Calliope (August): 49.
2011. ‘Tales of a Sarcophagus’, Dig (August): 15-18.
2011. ‘Safeguarding for the Future’, Dig (August): 24-5.
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.
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.
2011. ‘Nile Currents’, Kmt: A Modern Journal of Archaeology 22.1: 7-10.
2011. ‘Nile Currents’, Kmt: A Modern Journal of Archaeology 22.2: 4-7.
2011. ‘Nile Currents’, Kmt: A Modern Journal of Archaeology 22.3: 4-7.
2011. ‘Nile Currents’, Kmt: A Modern Journal of Archaeology 22.4: 5-8.
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. ‘Archaeozoological Remains’, Saqqara IV: The Funerary Complex of
Nyankhnefertem’, K. Mysliwiec and K. O. Kuraszkiewicz, eds. Warsaw: Neriton,
122-25.
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. ‘Egypt’, The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Remains and Legislations, N. Marquez Grant and L. Fibiger, eds. London: Routledge.
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.
2009-2010. ‘Nile Currents’, K.M.T. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 20 no. 4: 7-10.
2010. ‘Nile Currents’, K.M.T. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 21 no. 1: 4-7.
2010. ‘Nile Currents’, K.M.T. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 21 no. 2: 5-8.
2010. ‘Nile Currents’, K.M.T. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 21 no. 3: 5-8.
2010-2011. ‘Nile Currents’, K.M.T. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 21 no. 4: 5-7.
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.
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. ‘Drawing the World: Petroglyphs from Kharga Oasis’, ArchéoNil 19:67-82.
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.
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.
2009. 'Ancient Egyptian Leather Chariot Casing', with A. J. Veldmeijer. Archaeological Leather
Group Newsletter 30: 8-9.
2008. ‘Animal Mummies from Abu Rawash’, with A. Charron. Kmt: A Modern Journal of
Egyptology 19.2: 34-41.
2008. ‘Preliminary genetic and radiological studies of Ibis mummification in Egypt’, with M.
Spiegelman, 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.
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.
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.
2008. ‘Divine Kingship’ with Janice Kamrin, Calliope 19.1: 4-6.
2008. ‘The Woman Who Would be King’ with Janice Kamrin, Calliope 19.1: 7-9.
2008. ‘Who’s Who?’ with Janice Kamrin, Calliope 19.1: 35-38.
2008. ‘Guardian on the Plateau’, (with J. Kamrin) Dig 1: 6-9.
2008. ‘Shape Tells All’, (with J. Kamrin) Dig 1: 12-15.
2008. Time Hurts’, (with J. Kamrin) Dig 1: 16-20.
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. ‘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. 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 [http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/huyge/index.html]
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).
2007. ‘Tiermumien im Alten Ägypten’, Ägptische Mumien, Unsterblichkeit im Land der
Pharaonen, D. von Recklinghausen (ed.). Stuttgart: 292-310.
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.
2007. ‘Afterlife beliefs and burial customs’, The Egyptian World, T. Wilkinson, ed.
London: Routledge, 340-51.
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.
2007. ‘Tutankhamun’s Missing Ribs’, with D. Forbes and J. Kamrin, KMT: A Modern Journal of
Egyptology 18.1: 50-56.
2007. ‘Mummified Menageries: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies’, British Institute of
Radiology News (Spring 2007), 12-13.
2007. ‘Eat Like an Ancient Egyptian’, (with J. Kamrin) Dig 9.1: 14-15.
2006. ‘North Kharga Oasis Survey 2003 Preliminary Report: Umm el-Dabadib, MDAIK 62, pp.
279-306 (with others).
2006. ‘Paths, Petroglyphs, and Piety: the North Kharga Oasis Survey 2006 Season’, Bulletin of the
American Research Center in Egypt 190: 18-23.
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.
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:
IFAO, pp. 125-31.
2006. Co-author, The American Contributions to Egyptian Archaeology, Cairo: American
Research Center in Egypt.
2006. ‘Growing up in Amarna’, with J. Kamrin, Dig, January: 12-14.
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.
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.
2005. Respondent: “Drinking Beer in a Blissful Mood”, Current Anthropology, 46.2: 291-2.
2005. ‘Brief Report of the North Kharga Oasis Survey’s 2005 Season’, Bull. ARCE 187: 8-11.
2005. ‘Egypt, Ancient: Agriculture,’ Encyclopedia of African History. Ed. Kevin
Shillington. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 3 vols., pp. 415-416.
2005. ‘Egypt, Ancient: Literacy,’ Encyclopedia of African History. Ed. Kevin
Shillington. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 3 vols., pp. 423-424
2005. ‘Egypt, Ancient: Social Organization,’ Encyclopedia of African History. Ed. Kevin
Shillington. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 3 vols., pp. 425-427
2005. Endangered archaeology of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt’, Culture Without Context
5: 22-3.
2004. ‘West Saqqara: Animal Bone Report’, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 15: 131-2.
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)’, Journal of
Egyptian Archaeology 89: 247-51.
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.
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.
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.
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: William
Morrow, 100-109.
2002. ‘The State of Egyptology’, Egypt Almanac, Wilmington, DE: Egypto-file, 99-104.
2002. ‘Petroglyphs & Inscriptions Along the Darb Ain Amur, Kharga Oasis’, with C. Rossi, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 129: 142-51.
2002-03. ‘Surveying the North Kharga Oasis’, with C. Rossi, KMT13.4: 72-79.
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.
2002-03. ‘Interview with Zahi Hawass about Rescuing Egypt’s Stolen Treasures’, KMT13.4:
18-22.
2002. ‘Bones, Blood & Butchers: Ethnoarchaeology & Ancient Egyptian Butchery’, Moving
Matters: Ethnoarchaeology in the Near East, W. Wendrich and G. van der Kooij (eds). Leiden: Leiden University: 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:
Leiden University: 159-70.
2001. ‘Digging It’, Egypt Almanac 2001, Egypt Almanac 2001, Wilmington, DE: Egypto-file: 91
4.
2001. ‘Moving Tut’, Egypt Almanac 2001, Egypt Almanac 2001, Wilmington, DE: Egypto-file: 92.
2001. ‘Underwater Alexandria’, Egypt Almanac 2001, Wilmington, DE: Egypto-file: 93.
2001. ‘West Saqqara: Preliminary Zooarchaeological Report, 2000’, Polish Archaeology in the
Mediterranean 12: 127-32.
2001. ‘The Home of the Giant Catfish’, Nekhen News 13: 8, Fall.
2001. ‘Nubians at Hierakonpolis: The Zooarchaeological Report’, Sudan and Nubia 5: 39.
2001. ‘The Animal Mummy Project’, KMT12.4: 18-25.
2001. ‘Excavations at Medieval Kinet, Turkey: A Preliminary Report’, with others, Ancient Near
Eastern Studies 38, 2001: 59-139.
2001. ‘Diet’,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt , New York: Oxford University
Press, 390-95.
2001. ‘Banquets’,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt , New York: Oxford University Press, 162-64.
2001.‘The Iconography of the Hyena in Ancient Egypt’, Mitteilungen der Deutsches
Archäeologisches Institut, Kairo 57: 127-140.
2001.‘Preliminary Zooarchaeological Report for West Saqqara’, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 12: 127-32.
2000. ‘The Queen’s Pet Gazelle’, KMT 11.2: 58-61.
2000. ‘Animals for the Afterlife’, Egypt Revealed 1.1, 2000: 55-61.
2000. Introduction to Fellahin of Upper Egypt (by W. S. Blackman), Cairo: American University
in Cairo Press, v-xiii.
2000. ‘Meat Production’, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, P. Nicholson and I. Shaw, eds., 656-71.
2000. ‘Faunal Remains in KV5’, KV5: Preliminary Report, Cairo: American University in Cairo,
127-33.
1999. ‘Faunal Remains at West Saqqara: a Preliminary Report’, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 10: 106.
1998. ‘The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project 1993-1995’ section on the
fauna, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 83: 17-53.
‘Nile Currents’, KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology 1994-2009, published quarterly. 60
articles thus far.
1997. ‘An Interview with Zahi Hawass’, KMT : A Modern Journal of Egyptology 8.2: 16-25.
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.
1996. ‘Unique Structure Revealed’, KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology 7.3: 18-19.
1995. ‘Did the Ancient Egyptians Eat Biltong?’, Cambridge Journal of Archaeology 5.2: 283-89.
1995. ‘Exploring the Unexplored,’ Egypt Today January: 118-19.
1994, ‘Abydos Funerary Boats’, Egypt Today , February: 138-39.
1994. ‘A Second Flowering at El Amarna’, Egypt Today, May: 152-53.
1994. ‘High Society at Gebel el-Haridi’ with C. Kirby, Egyptian Archaeology, Bulletin of the
Egypt Exploration Society 4: 32-33.
1994. ‘Food for Eternity’ two parts, KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology 5.1 (24-33) and 5.2
(53-60; 75-77).
1994. ‘Diagnosis of Plasmodium faciparum Infections in Mummies Using the Rapid Manual Para Sight- F Test’, with R. Miller et al, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine
and Hygiene 88: 31-32.
1992. ‘Palaeo-epidemiology of Schistosoma Infection in Mummies’ with R. Miller et al, British Medical Journal 304, (29 Feb. 1992): 555-556.
1992. ‘Land of the Plumed Serpent’ with C. Kirby, Egyptian Archaeology: Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society, 35-36.
1991. ‘Animal Mating Motifs in Tombs of the Old Kingdom’, Gottinger Miszellen 124: 51-61.
1989. ‘Domestic Shrines and the Cult of the Royal Family in el-Amarna’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 75: 89-101.