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Christopher Hugh Naunton is a British Egyptologist, a writer and a broadcaster, and an expert on the life of Flinders Petrie.

He studied Egyptology at the universities of Birmingham and Swansea, and obtained his PhD.[1] He has been director of the Egypt Exploration Society[2] and president of the International Association of Egyptologists.[3] In 2013, he presented Tutankhamun: The mystery of the Burnt Mummy on Channel 4 in the UK.[4]

Chris Naunton has been involved in a program for teaching Egyptology and the history of ancient Egypt named Playing in the Past, a T.tv series, based on the reconstructions of the video game "Assassin's Creed Origins", which he considers as "the best visualization of ancient Egypt".[5][6]

Books

  • Naunton, Christopher Hugh (2011). Regime Change and the Administration of Thebes During the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. Swansea University.
  • Naunton, Chris (24 September 2019). Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-77452-6.
  • Naunton, Chris; Karsten, Guilherme (28 May 2021). King Tutankhamun Tells All!. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-65255-8.
  • Naunton, Chris (2020). Egyptologists' Notebooks: The Golden Age of Nile Exploration in Words, Pictures, Plans, and Letters. Getty Publications. ISBN 978-1-60606-676-8.

References

  1. ^ Pischikova, Elena (2014). Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis: Thebes, Karakhamun (TT 223), and Karabasken (TT 391) in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. American University in Cairo Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-977-416-618-1.
  2. ^ Gabolde, Marc (30 September 2015). Toutankhamon (in French). Pygmalion. p. 307. ISBN 978-2-7564-1789-9.
  3. ^ Page Former Presidents and Secretaries General on the IAE website.
  4. ^ Heath, Julian (19 February 2015). Archaeology Hotspot Egypt: Unearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-7591-2402-8.
  5. ^ Craig, Jo (11 March 2021). "Egyptologists Use Assassin's Creed: Origins To Teach History". TheGamer.
  6. ^ "Why Three Egyptologists Are Teaching History Through Assassin's Creed Origins". news.ubisoft.com.
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