Ancient Egypt lecture with Dr. Chris Naunton "Tutankhamun's Turbulent Reign"
LECTURE
Tutankhamun's Turbulent Reign
4:00pm-5:30pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Saturday 15 August
In the second event in the series, join Dr. Naunton as he explores Egypt's 18th dynasty and the turbulent reign assumed by Tutankhamun when he ascended the throne of Egypt at the age of nine years old. A brief Q and A will follow the lecture.
About Dr. Chris Naunton
Dr. Chris Naunton is an Egyptologist, broadcaster and writer. He is the author of Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt (2018) and Egyptologists’ Notebooks (2020). He has presented documentaries on Flinders Petrie, The Man Who Discovered Egypt (BBC4) and Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy (Channel 4).
Chris has appeared as an expert across a range of programmes and broadcasters including Treasures Decoded (Channel 4), Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb (Channel 4), Cleopatra: Mother, Mistress, Murderer, Queen (Channel 5), Mummies Alive(Yesterday), Bible Hunters (BBC Two), Touching the Past: The Pyramids (National Geographic) and Ancient Impossible (The History Channel).
He has also been interviewed as an expert for Channel 4 News, Al-Jazeera TV news, The One Show (BBC One), The Simon Mayo Show (BBC Radio 2) and BBC Radio 5 Live Drive.
He holds undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the University of Birmingham and a PhD from Swansea University. Chris is an expert on ancient Egypt and the history of Egyptology and has published extensively in both fields. He has worked in Egypt at Abydos, the ancient Egyptians’ Mecca, and in a series of tombs in Western Thebes.
The 2012 BBC4 documentary on Flinders Petrie, The Man Who Discovered Egypt was seen by over one million viewers on first broadcast. It has since been repeated 22 times on BBC4 and been sold to Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia and Sweden. Chris subsequently led a research project on the life and death of Tutankhamun for Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy which was broadcast on Channel 4 in November 2013 to 2.3 million viewers. The film was also screened on PBS in the US, the History Channel in Canada, and the National Geographic Channel in numerous countries worldwide including Australia, Germany, and The Netherlands. It garnered attention from the national and international press (print, radio and television) leading to interviews with Newshour (BBC World Service) and numerous other radio, TV and print media outlets in the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland and US.
Chris worked for the EES from 2001 to 2016. He was President of the International Association of Egyptologists from 2015 to 2019, and in 2016 he was appointed Director of the The Robert Anderson Trust, a London-based chain that provides support to young academics.
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