[2] The author of several academic books, Riggs also writes on ancient Egyptian themes for a wider audience.
[3] Her most recent books include Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide and Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century.
[4] In 2007, Riggs was appointed a lecturer (assistant professor) in art history at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Riggs has held posts at All Souls College, Oxford, where in 2012, she delivered the Evans-Pritchard Lectures, in a series entitled "Unwrapping Ancient Egypt: The Shroud, the Secret, and the Sacred".
With support from the British Academy and in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, Oxford University, Riggs curated an exhibition called Photographing Tutankhamun, shown at The Collection, Lincoln in 2017-18 and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, in 2018.