Work is finally calming down a little but I’m already looking forward to returning to Egypt this autumn, not least for the second departure of the MISSING CITIES tour: www.ancient.co.uk/holiday/the-...

Wowed by this amazing image from TT 296. At the bottom of the scene the deceased appears, with a djed pillar (resurrection) for a head, above which is an ankh (life), which has a pair of arms and hands which are thrusting a sun-disk upwards towards the outstretched arms of the sky goddess, Nut…

I first noticed this chapel in the open-air museum at Karnak a year or so ago and was immediately struck by a very odd feature: on the inside there is a long text in large hieroglyphs bearing the names of Ramesses II, but cut sideways into the rock… Full post: www.instagram.com/p/DYKd0_-DHN...

More photos from February… Theban temples looking amazing: The Ramesseum doing its thing in the warm afternoon light (1st pic), and the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak looked particularly good on my last visit. Must be the light at this particular time of day/year I think…

Finally, finally catching up with posting photos from earlier this year now that work calming down a little. I went to the Grand Egyptian Museum in January and February and discovered that a photo of mine is on display…

Please accept my apologies for a late change to the date of my next talk, as follows: Statues, Mummies and Embalmers: caches in ancient Egypt NEW DATE: Wednesday 29 April 2026, 6.00 pm UK time Live via YouTube – click here: youtube.com/live/s4jSA76... Sorry!

EGYPT: From the Pyramids to Tutankhamun: a day of lectures hosted by Fine & Cultural Tours. Thursday 12 November 2026, Art Workers' Guild, Queen Square, London. For further info or to book see www.fineandcultural.com/edgypt-from-... See you there!

And another little interview, this one for the BBC, about the new Cleopatra exhibition... To book your tickets go here: cleopatraexperience.co.uk/london/?fbcl...

Little interview what I done for the new Cleopatra exhibition last week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh-C... Really excited to have been there for the launch of with my friend, the curator, Nacho Ares. Thanks for getting me involved Nacho!

YOUTUBE LECTURES: MARCH, APRIL & TAKING A BREAK… Hi folks, I’m sorry to be announcing this at such short notice but details of this month's talk & April’s are as follows (1/3): Siptah, Tausret & the Chancellor, Bay: the end of the 19th Dynasty Tues 31 March, 6pm www.youtube.com/live/wh4LOdX...

A big thank you to writer and historian Mathew Lyons for inviting me to participate in his brilliant series about reading habits: open.substack.com/pub/mathewly... His Substack, The Broken Compass, is superb, highly recommended. Thanks Mathew! 🙏

Delighted to be involved with this new exhibition 🙂 Coming to London very soon... youtu.be/brOV5-4Ik-8?...

Egyptology vs Alternative Truth – why Egyptologists really matter in the 2020s: chrisnaunton.com/2026/01/18/e...

Very grateful to @thehistoryguy.bsky.social for being such a good sport here... www.instagram.com/reel/DUQ9RuO...

Thanks to Garrett Ryan from Told In Stone for this fun chat: youtu.be/DCpo5xwihMU?...

First time seeing the Tutankhamun material at the GEM. King Tut’s gang. Don’t mess… #grandegyptianmuseum #tutankhamun #ancientegypt #Egyptology #pharaoh

Finished our desert day at Dimeh, & slightly later than planned which meant the risk of driving home in the dark. But also that we were there as the sun god Ra began his nightly descent down into the ground and perilous journey back to towards the new day. It’s not called the magic hour for nothing…

Love me a bit of desert exploration… #faiyum #egypt #ancientegypt #egyptology #desert

Catching up with photos… Spent a day recently exploring the Faiyum, visiting Qasr es-Saga, Soknopaiou Nesos and Widan el-Faras where I was delighted that we were able to stop by the ancient trackway, which I’d only ever seen in photos before… Full post: www.instagram.com/p/DUGUfd-DNm...

Busy few weeks coming up: lecturing & TV will take me to Spain, Paris, Egypt & the US, and I'll be travelling around the UK giving talks too. So if you're in Cordoba, Poynton, New York(!), Worthing, Chesterfield, Taunton, Carlisle or Kent... do come and say 'hi'! chrisnaunton.com/lectures-in-...

I'll be lecturing in Cordoba, Spain on Thursday evening (8 Jan) on 'The conception and birth of the divine child'. More info: eldespertaralavidaenegipto.com/en/activities/

Dear friends, I’m so sorry to do this you again but I am having to move the time of both the next two lectures on YouTube, as follows: Mentuhotep II and the Rise of Thebes Thursday 27 November Prev time 1800 NOW CHANGED TO 1600 youtube.com/live/qzSlHGH... And...

The Robert Anderson Trust (of which I'm Director) is now inviting applications for research visits to London in 2026. All the information and a link to the application form can be found on the Trust’s website: robertandersontrust.org/apply/

Folks, TALK LIKE an EGYPTIAN will be going LIVE on Tuesday morning at 10 am (UK time). In audio and video! If we can make it work that is… I know nothing about this but Iszi does and she’s in charge so I’m sure it will be fine. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/livest...

PODCAST NEW EPISODE! Series 1, episode 5: Egyptomania Why are we so obsessed with Ancient Egypt? All children study it, museums w Egyptian objects are always full, documentaries do really well, and we’ve had a couple of waves of Egyptomania... All episodes here: www.patreon.com/collection/1...

Lecture in Rolla, Missouri! Come and say hi! news.mst.edu/2025/09/egyp...

Feeling very honoured to have been invited to give the Thompson Lecture - on 'Tutankhamun: In Life, Death and Eternal Afterlife' - at the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA: 14938a.blackbaudhosting.com/14938a/Thomp...

IT'S A NEW PODCAST! WOOOO! 🙌 Talk Like and Egyptian with me and @iszi.com. Subscribe via Apple podcasts, Spotify etc, and support us by becoming a member please and thank you. All the info is here: www.patreon.com/cw/TalkLikeA... Enjoy! Oh and LIFE! PROSPERITY! HEALTH! 😀

TEASER! SOMETHING EXCITING COMING SOON! NOT TELLING YOU WHAT! #sodfast

Folks, next year we are at last going back to the Western Desert: www.ancient.co.uk/holiday/karn... Luxor to Kharga in the 4x4s via via Dush, Zayan, Ghweita, Hibis, Bagawat and elsewhere, then onto the GEM, Saqqara and Giza. CANNOT WAIT!

The GEM will finally be fully open later this year and I'll be there with an AWT in February. Come along! mailchi.mp/ancient/temp...

Honoured to have been invited to speak at Missouri S&T (www.mst.edu) on 2 October. If you're nearby please come and say hi!

NEW ONLINE LECTURES for AUGUST 2025 to FEBRUARY 2026! The Karnak Cachette – Fishing for Statues Thurs 28 August 2025 www.youtube.com/live/kdv8yvs... Searching for the Missing Cities of Egypt Thursday 25 September 2025 www.youtube.com/live/9vgk3_i...

Our first ‘MISSING CITIES’ trip has sold out! And so we’ll be doing it again in December 2026 😊 and it’s now open for bookings here: www.ancient.co.uk/holiday/the-...

A long time ago I wrote about the discovery of the temple of Mentuhotep by Naville for the EES’ newsletter: www.academia.edu/1349590/A_Hi... It always seemed to me to be a great story & that the temple has been unfairly overlooked by comparison with its neighbour, the temple of Hatshepsut.

Can't wait for this: ‘TEMPLES & TOMBS – SPECIAL EDITION’ www.ancient.co.uk/holiday/temp... Based mostly in Luxor but with a full day at the GEM at the start. We’ve got a special permit to visit the temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahri which I’m really excited about as I’ve never been inside...

I’ve just made my talk on ‘The EGYPTIAN LABYRINTH – The Middle Kingdom and the Faiyum Region’ available for a limited time to everyone via YouTube: youtube.com/live/6yGgwIk...

Petros Koutoupis is talking spirit animals with Egyptologist, @chrisnaunton.bsky.social Digging Up The Past - Episode 23: In Search of Lost Egyptian Tombs More at DiggingUpThePast.com #egypt #egyptology #ancientegypt #ancient #history

Temple & Tombs SPECIAL EDITION. Really excited about this trip as it includes a special permit to visit the spectacular XIth Dynasty temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahri... More info / to book: ancient.co.uk/holiday/temp...

Lectures NOT ONLINE! Lots of lectures and study days coming up in the next few weeks and months: London, Northampton, Horsham, Pisa, Italy, Rolla, MO and Flint, MI in the US, Glasgow, Barnsley, Poynton, Taunton and Kent: chrisnaunton.com/lectures-in-...

NEXT WEEKEND (Sat 28 June): Me and Iszi Lawrence will be doing a chat and Q&A after a screening a screening of The Mummy at the British Museum. More info / tickets: www.britishmuseum.org/.../behind-s... See you there? The BM has excellent aircon - added incentive for Londoners at the moment...

Thanks to everyone who came along to my talks on 'THE BATTLE of QADESH – Ramesses the Great vs The Hittites' last week. The recorded version is already available to channel members, here: youtube.com/live/Jo_SUr2...

Life on the Desert Edge: Memories of Beit Emery by Sue Davies - a wonderful new book which I strongly recommend. I've written a brief review here: chrisnaunton.com/2025/06/02/l...

So pleased that friends at Manchester AE Soc are putting on this study day in memory my auntie Jill (McKeown) who died last year, having been a MAES member since the 1980s: bit.ly/3S7qTCL

This was such a fun shoot. Big thank you to the team: Director Sigrid, DoP Josselin, second cameraman Anthony, local producer/fixer Mohamed, Khaled and the boys. Finished product due on French television at Christmas time, and internationally thereafter!

Mosque complex of Kalawoun. Beautiful architecture and partially built with stone from ancient temples (photographing spolia gave me a good chance to get a good pic of Sigrid’s cool skate shoes!) #cairo #oldcairo #elazhar #mosque

I’d never been into the mosque of el-Azhar until this trip. It was dedicated in 972 CE & is now the most important mosque in Egypt, and the most important in the world for the study of sunni theology, and golly gosh is it beautiful: the gleaming white some of the courtyard was almost blinding… (1/)

On my last day we were only filming in the evening which gave us the day to explore Cairo. This the mosque of al-Salih Tala'i which was built in 1160 CE and lies just outside the medieval city walls by the Bab Zuweila (the ‘gate of the Zuweila’ - a Berber tribe from what is now south-western Libya)

Special privilege on this trip to get up to the original entrance of the Great Pyramid to talk about the inscription left by Lepsius. It’s an Egyptian style text, written in excellent hieroglyphs(!), praising the expedition and the King of Prussia… Full post: www.instagram.com/p/DJDI2ciqxp...

It’s rare that I get either a photo of myself that I like or that shows me at work doing telly stuff so I’m very thankful to have been sent several that qualify on both counts by our DOP Josselin. Of course the location helps :) Merci Josselin!