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Hatchepsut by Joyce A. Tyldesley
Hatchepsut by Joyce A. Tyldesley









She is a Teaching Fellow at Manchester University where she is tutor and course organiser of the three-year distance learning (internet based) Certificate in Egyptology programme run from the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology. In 1981, she earned a first-class honours degree in archaeology from Liverpool University, and a doctorate in Prehistoric Archaeology from Oxford in 1986. Tyldesley was born in Bolton, Lancashire and attended Bolton School. (Feb.Joyce Tyldesley is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic, writer and broadcaster.

Hatchepsut by Joyce A. Tyldesley

Unfortunately, Tyldesley adds little that's new for such readers, and those avid to read about human misdeeds will be similarly disappointed. The most likely audience for this book consists of readers well versed in ancient Egypt, looking to expand their knowledge. For example, her discussion on homosexuality is a scanty paragraph with one example that raises more questions than it answers. (Tyldesley effectively dismisses the notion that ancient Egypt was rife with incest and polygamy, although she affirms that prostitution ""was a legitimate trade."") But Tyldesley, an expert at the concise account, this time around is perhaps too concise. Exceptions are chapters on the long-standing Egyptian tradition of tomb-robbing, which she calls ""Egypt's second oldest profession,"" and on sex and sex crimes. However, the rest of the book, in which she explores various crimes-from regicide (particularly the murder of Tutankhamen) to adultery to petty theft-does not live up to its potential. In the first, and most satisfying, third of the book, Tyldesley aptly examines the administrative structure of the Egyptian judicial system, focusing on the roles of the pharaoh, the vizier and other officers of the law.

Hatchepsut by Joyce A. Tyldesley

British Egyptologist Tyldesley (Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh etc.), the prolific author of acclaimed books for a general audience, here has all the makings of a bestseller-passion, sex and murder-but she squanders the opportunity with a treatment that is neither comprehensive nor gripping.











Hatchepsut by Joyce A. Tyldesley