The Sunday Times
‘The biggest discovery since Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon unearthed Tutankhamun in 1922'
Product Description
In this book, Dr Joann Fletcher pieces the evidence together to solve one of the biggest remaining mysteries of Egyptian history. Joann and a team of experts have helped identify the body which has been considered missing for more that 3000 years, and the story it confirms casts Nefertiti in astonishing new light. No mere wife of a pharaoh, Nefertiti herself became ruler of Egypt. Always the major player to a weak husband, following Akhenaten's death she held court in the new capital of Amarna enjoying unrivalled wealth and luxury while the country disintegrated around her.
About the Author
Dr Joann Fletcher is Consultant Egyptologist for Harrogate Museums and Arts and has studied human remains at several sites in Egypt, including working on the oldest royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings. The author of seven books and numerous articles, Joann is a contributor to the BBC's History website and the Guardian's science section, and is a regular consultant to publishers. She has lectured extensively in the UK and abroad. She developed the UK's first national Egyptology qualification for the Awarding Body Consortium, and as Egyptology consultant for several television companies she makes regular TV appearances. Joann is also Honorary Research Fellow at the University of York.
