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Lecture: Beloved Beasts: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies, Salima Ikram

Daily Beacon (Elizabeth Storey)

This page reports on a lecture delivered by Salima Ikram in Cairo, about animal mummification in ancient Egypt.

Animal mummies, long overshadowed by human mummies, hold much more useful information about ancient Egypt than has previously been thought.

Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo, discussed the increase in research on animal mummies in her lecture, “Beloved Beasts: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies,” Thursday.

“For a long time people would regard animal mummies with curiosity, tuck them under their arm and take them home,” Ikram said. “Animals were of great importance and significance in ancient Egypt as in many other cultures. On one level, they were important for their gods, part human, part animals. On another level, animals are of crucial significance because they give you food.”

Ikram referred to four different types of animal mummies, their uses in ancient Egypt, how they were mummified, and what they meant to humans.

- Online: Egyptian Animal Mummies Database
Egyptian Animal Mummies Database Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods...

- Animal Mummies – X-radiography, And Coming Soon – Ct Scans!
Brooklyn Museum (Lisa Bruno) These past few weeks we have been steadily packing and preparing to transport a group of animal mummies to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) for CT scanning with radiologist Anthony Fischetti, DVM, MS. In earlier blog posts...

- Open Access Database - Animal Mummies
Ancient World Online See the above page for links. Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings...

- In The Lab
Video: Salima Ikram talks about animal mummies Heritage Key Salima Ikram is an excellent presenter and this is a great introduction to the process of animal mummification, accompanied by some footage of animal mummies. Dr Ikram shows two handfuls of natron,...

- Mummified
An interesting video on animal mummification from Dr. Salima Ikram. http://heritage-key.com/blogs/malcolmj/dr-salima-ikram-talks-animal-mummification-new-heritage-key-video#video...

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