#35: TUTANKHAMUN: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma. Lost for Three Thousand Years, Misunderstood for a Century with Joyce Tyldesley

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Joyce Tyldesley is professor of Egyptology in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology (CAHAE), within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. She studied the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean at Liverpool University, then obtained a D.Phil in prehistoric archaeology from Oxford University.
Joyce has also published a series of books and articles on ancient Egypt: these include three television tie in books and Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt, which was a Radio 4 "Book of the Week".

In this episode I sat with Joyce and discussed her latest book, TUTANKHAMUN: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma. Lost for Three Thousand Years, Misunderstood for a Century.
Some of the talking points include:

• The conflict is between how Tutankhamun is often remembered and how he wanted to be remembered.
• Why Tutankhamun's Amana background is integral to understanding who he was.
• The widely shared and misunderstood theories of how he died.
• The discovery of Tutankhamun, the world at the time and the controversy surrounding around it.
• Is it right to ever go to another persons land and dig up their tomb? and do we really learn a lot from doing it?
• The so-called curse of Tutankhamun's tomb

The Book and Audiobook: TUTANKHAMUN: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma. Lost for Three Thousand Years, Misunderstood for a Century is out now.

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