Joyce A. Tyldesley

last queen of Egypt

Cleopatra

Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh

Ramesses

A stunning re-creation of the life of an ancient Egyptian queen tells of the Pharaoh Akhenaton and his beautiful wife, whose painted bust has made her instantly recognizable to the world, and explores the reasons for her sudden disappearance from history.

Egypt's Sun Queen

Nefertiti

Spanning three millennia of Egyptian history, a richly illustrated study of the queens of ancient Egypt ranges from the early dynastic period to the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, offering a biographical portrait of each queen, along with information on the era in which she lived and her influence on Egyptian history.

From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra

Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt

A biography of Cleopatra, the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries.

Last Queen of Egypt

Accompanying a Channel 4 documentary series, this volume shows how modern scientific techniques can be used to answer questions about the pharaohs and the mysteries of ancient Egyptian royal genetics.

The Private Lives of the Pharaohs

She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek) and very clever (her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were as much to do with politics as the heart), she steered her kingdom through impossibly taxing internal problems and railed against greedy Roman imperialism. Stripping away preconceptions as old as her Roman enemies, Joyce Tyldesley uses all her skills as an Egyptologist to give us this magnificent biography.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

"Joyce Tyldesley's book illuminates for the first time one hitherto uncertain aspect of everyday existence in the Nile Valley: it unmasks ancient Egyptian criminals and their misdemeanours. Tyldesley recreates meticulously a series of crimes, from grave robbing, false embalming, necrophilia and bestiality, to a vivid recreation of the 'murder' of Tutankhamen (which reassesses the evidence for his unlawful killing). She also introduces us to the town of Deir el-Medina and its inhabitants, which was the dwelling place of the craftsmen and their families who worked in the nearby Valley of the Kings, building and maintaining the royal tombs. Their crimes and transgressions were carefully recorded and provide an eloquent record of ancient Egyptian attitudes towards sex and death, property and punishment."--BOOK JACKET.

Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt

Judgement of the Pharaoh

Describes what recent discoveries in scientific archaeology, especially in the study of ancient Egyptian mummies, have revealed about the people who actually built the pyramids, Tutankhamen and his family, and health conditions at court.

The Dramatic Story of Life in the New Kingdom

Egypt's Golden Empire

In the popular imagination Ancient Egypt is seen as an idyllic place where, for 300 years, wise Pharaohs governed a peaceful and plentiful kingdom. Historians, although sceptical of the truth of this image, have always struggled to penetrate it to discover the realities of life for ordinary Egyptians. That is until now.

Joyce A. Tyldesley

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