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Dr Joann Fletcher – Ancient Egypt, Life & Death in the Valley of the Kings
Sunday, 12th May @ 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm
The story of the world’s greatest civilisation spans more than 4,000 years of history that has shaped the world.
It is full of spectacular sites and epic stories, an evolving society rich in heroes and villains, inventors and intellectuals, artisans and pioneers.
Joann Fletcher uncovers some fascinating revelations, from Egypt’s oldest art to the beginnings of mummification almost two thousand years earlier than previously believed.
She also looks at the women who became pharaohs on at least 10 occasions, and the evidence that the Egyptians built the first Suez Canal, circumnavigated Africa and won victories at the original Olympic games.
From Ramses II’s penchant for dying his greying hair to how we know Montuhotep’s wife bit her nails and the farmer Baki liked eating in bed, Joann Fletcher brings alive the history and people of ancient Egypt as nobody else can.
Professor Joann Fletcher is based in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and is Lead Ambassador for the Egypt Exploration Society.
Her many television appearances include’Mummifying Alan:Egypt’s Last Secret’ her recent series include ‘Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings’, ‘Egypt’s Lost Queens’ and ‘Immortal Egypt with JoannFletcher’. Her books include Cleopatra the Great , The Search for Nefertiti and The Story of Egypt.
