Ancient Egyptians and the Natural World

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.

• Curatorial Training in Human Remains for the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.Hasnaa Askalany & Gehad Shawky Ibrahem Hyperostosis frontalis interna in the Early Dynastic Period at Abydos, Egypt.Brenda J. Baker & Ahmed Mohamed Gabr Humans and Animals together in the Journey to the Afterlife. The Burial in Area R11 under the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II, Luxor, West Thebes – Italian Archaeological Project.Fabio Bona, Giovanna Bellandi, Letizia Cavallini, Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino & Angelo Sesana To Be or Not to Be a Dog Mummy: How a Metric Study of the Skull can Inform on Selection Practices Pertaining to Canid Mummification in Ancient Egypt.Colline Brassard, Stéphanie Porcier & Cécile Callou Newcomers in the Bestiary. A Review of the Presence of Lycaon pictus in Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Environment and Iconography.Axelle Brémont Dévots et animaux sacrés.Alain Charron Tuberculosis at Tell-el Amarna: A Theoretical Exercise in the Economic and Social Effects of Chronic, Terminal Disease in Ancient Egypt.Gretchen R. Dabbs Burial Practices in the West Delta: Cases from Kom Aziza.Shereen El-Morsi & Aya M. Salem A Structure-from-Motion Pipeline for Bone Morphology 3D Analysis.Margaret Farmer & Angelique Corthals Lions and Science and Whorls, Oh My!Karen Polinger Foster Human and Faunal Remains in Egypt: A New Department and a New Approach.Zeinab Hashesh & Ahmed Gabr Creatures of the Sun, Creatures of the Moon: Animal Mummies from Lisbon’s National Archaeological Museum.Salima Ikram, Carlos Prates, Sandra Sousa & Carlos Oliveira Brief Notes about a Mummified Crocodile from the National Archaeological Museum (MANN) of Naples, Italy.Ilaria Incordino & Cinzia Oliva Faunal Remains at the Causeway of Sahura.Mohamed Ismail Khaled & Mohamed Hussein Ahmed Venerunt, Viderunt, Vicerunt: The Roman Conquest and the Non-Elite.Jessica Kaiser Iinteractions Between Teeth and Their Environment: A Study of the Effect on Age Estimation.Casey L. Kirkpatrick Discovery of an Unexpected Textile Fiber in a Fish Mummy from the Musée des Conflunces (Lyon) Collection.Fleur Letellier-Willemin Women’s Health Issues Reflected in Case Studies from Theban Tomb 16.Suzanne Onstine, Jesus Herrerín, Miguel Sanchez & Rosa Dinarès Analyse des gazelles momifiées de Kom Mereh/Komir (Haute Egypte) conservées au Musée des Confluences (Lyon, France).Stéphanie Porcies & Louis Chaix Did Egyptians Eat Donkeys? Reflections from Historical and Archaeological Data.Mathilde Prévost & Joséphine Lesur What I Have Learned: Assumptions Bad, Intersections Good.Richard W. Redding Biomolecular Stable Isotope and Carbon-14 Dates of Ancient Egyptian Food Offerings: A Case Study from a Provincial Cemetery of Deir el-Ballas.Amr Khalaf Shahat & Victoria Jensen Animal Butchering Technology in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt: The Shift from Stone to Metal Tools.Eleuterio Sousa & Haskel J. Greenfield Anthropological Study of the Egyptian Mummy from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Using Computed Tomography.Sergey Vasilyev, E.B. Yatsishina, R.M. Galeev, S.B. Borustkaya, M.V. Kovalchuk, O.A. Vasilieva, O.P. Dyuzheva & V.L. Ushakov Intentionally Burnt Human Remains from the Kom Ombo Temple Salvage Excavation.Afaf Wahba