Joyce Tyldesley

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Joyce Ann Tyldesley (* 1960 in Lancashire ) is a British Egyptologist .

Joyce Tyldesley studied archeology in Liverpool and Oxford and has worked in Egypt for many years . She teaches and researches as an Egyptologist at Liverpool University. She is the author of several BBC television programs on Ancient Egypt and has written successful popular science books on Ramses the Great , Nefertiti and Hatshepsut .

She is married to the Egyptologist Steven Snape , lives in Lancashire and has two children.

Books

  • With Steven R. Snape: Nazlet Tuna: An Archaeological Survey in Middle Egypt. BAR, Oxford 1988, ISBN 0-86054-533-4 .
  • Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1995, ISBN 0-14-017596-2 .
    • German: Daughters of Isis: The woman in ancient Egypt. translated by Christa Broermann and Andrea Kann, Limes, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-8090-3001-5 .
  • Nefertiti. Egypt's Sun Queen. Viking, London / New York 1998, ISBN 0-670-86998-8 .
    • German: Egypt's sun queen. Biography of Nefertiti. Limes, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8090-3017-1 .
  • Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh. Penguin Books, London 1998, ISBN 0-14-024464-6 .
  • The Mummy: Unwrap the Ancient Secrets of the Mummies. Carlton, London 1999, ISBN 1-85868-714-4 .
    • German: Mummies: The secrets of the mummy tombs. translated by Viktor Melega, Tosa, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85492-029-6 .
  • Ramesses: Egypts Greatest Pharah. Penguin, London / New York 2001, ISBN 0-14-028097-9 .
    • German: Ramses. Egypt's greatest pharaoh. translated by Christa Broermann, Ullstein, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-550-07529-4 .
  • Egypt. How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered. BBC, London 2006, ISBN 0-563-49381-X .
  • Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt. Basic Books, New York 2008; Profile Books, London 2008, ISBN 1-86197-965-7 .
  • Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt
    • German: The queens of ancient Egypt: From the early dynasties to the death of Cleopatra. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-7338-0358-2 .
  • The Pharaohs
    • German: The Pharaohs. Egypt's most important ruler in 30 generations. Translated by Birgit Lamerz-Beckschäfer, National Geographic Germany, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86690-114-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tyldesley, Joyce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tyldesley, Joyce Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Lancashire