BBC’s “The Conversation” with Salima Ikram

BBC’s “The Conversation” with Salima Ikram about her work as an Egyptologist and studying animal mummies.

“Archaeologists are people who never grew up.” She describes the opening of a tomb and smelling the incense that was burned two thousand years earlier; her tools and equipment; her childhood exposure to ancient Egypt; and humanizing mummies: “when we think it is a great divide, it really isn’t; people who lived not just so long ago but in different places all share so much.”

She also discusses that 90% of her Egyptology students are female. “Girls and women have been increasingly empowered…” “Sexual harassment actually in the West I find much worst, in a way, then it is in the East��� one is often given far more respect.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02kmqsz?fb_ref=Default

Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout News Updates, Meet the Team!