DKfindout! Ancient Egypt

Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt  by Gill Harvey & Struan Reid

DK Eyewitness - Ancient Egypt

Navigators: Ancient Egypt (Paperback) by Miranda Smith

Tutankhamun was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. His father was the pharaoh Akhenaten, believed to be the mummy found in the tomb KV55.

Cleopatra VII Philopator was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. As a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.

Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun in November 1922, judged to be the best preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

He was a pioneering Scottish archaeologist – his experience excavating prehistoric sites in Scotland informed his innovative work in Egypt.  His early death meant that his importance has often been overlooked, but he deserves credit as the first experienced archaeologist to excavate in Egypt.