Tomb of Saqqara on Netflix, in which she featured, reached #5 on Netflix' Most Watched Shows during 2021. She has also served as an advisor on the Universal Pictures movie The Mummy. She acted in the 2020 film Luxor (dir. Zeina Durra). In 2018, Ikram participated in Tenerife (Spain), in the international congress "Athanatos. Inmortal. Muerte e inmortalidad en las poblaciones del pasado". During this congress there was an exhibition of mummies from different parts of the world, including the Guanche mummies of the ancient inhabitants of the island of Tenerife, with a technique similar to the Egyptian mummies. She lectures year-round at various conferences, museums, and more around the world. Courses that she has taught include Material Culture; Introduction to Egyptian Architecture; Research Seminar; Site Analysis; Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt II; Culture and Society of Ancient Egypt; Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt; Cult and Society of Ancient Egypt; and Selected Topics in Cultural Resource Management and Museology. Her research interests include Funerary Archaeology, Daily Life, Archaeozoology, Rock Art, Cultural Heritage and Museology, Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Bioarchaeology. To date, she is the only female Pakistani archaeologist working in Egypt. Awards and Honorary Degrees Excellence in Research Award by The American University in Cairo (2006). Annual Award in Investigation by the Spanish Geographical Society (2013). Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017). Published works Choice Cuts: Meat Production in Ancient Egypt (Leuven: Peeters, 1995); . Pyramids (Cairo: Zeitouna, 1995); . Royal Mummies in the Egyptian Museum (with Aidan Dodson, Cairo: Zeitouna/American University in Cairo Press, 1997); . The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity (with Aidan Dodson, New York: Thames & Hudson/Cairo: AUC Press, 1998); . Diet in: Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); . Catalogue général of Egyptian antiquities in the Cairo Museum: 24048/24056, Non-human mummies (Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities Press, 2002); . Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt (Longman, 2003); Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies In Ancient Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2005); . The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: royal and private sepulchres from the early dynastic period to the Romans (with Aidan Dodson, London & New York: Thames & Hudson/Cairo: AUC Press, 2008); . 'Meat Processing' in Nicholson, P. and Shaw, I. Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); . Ancient Egypt: An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press,