Chris Naunton

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]

Chris Naunton was involved with the 2017 excavation of the Pyramid of King's Daughter Hatshepsut at Dahshur.^[7]

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.