Tutankhamun: In Life, Death and Eternal Afterlife, Dr. Chris Naunton

Thanks to the discovery of his tomb in 1922, pharaoh Tutankhamun is one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. Prior to this, only a few scraps of evidence for his existence had survived, suggesting he reigned only for a few years and didn’t achieve very much. The tomb revealed that he came to the throne as a young boy and died a teenager, but he reigned at one of the most interesting times in Egyptian history. What do we know of him now, of
his life and what happened to him in death?

Dr. Chris Naunton is an Egyptologist, writer, broadcaster and author of Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt (2018), Egyptologists’ Notebooks (2020), King Tut Tells All! (2021) and Cleopatra Tells All! (2022). He has presented numerous television documentaries, including The Man Who Discovered Egypt (BBC4, 2012), Ultimate Tut (PBS, 2013), Secrets of King Tut’s Treasures (National Geographic, Disney+, 2018) and Egypt’s Lost Pyramid (Smithsonian Channel, 2019). He was Director (CEO) of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2012 to 2016 and President of the International Association of Egyptologists from 2015 to 2019.

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