Name Joyce Tyldesley | Role Writer | |
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Books Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt, Hatchepsut, Daughters of Isis: Women o, Nefertiti, Egypt: How a Lost Civilizatio | ||
Note on Cleopatra by Joyce Tyldesley
Joyce Ann Tyldesley (born 25 February 1960) is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic, writer and broadcaster.
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Life
Tyldesley was born in Bolton, Lancashire and attended Bolton School. In 1981 she earned a first-class honours degree in archaeology from Liverpool University; in 1986 she was awarded a doctorate in Prehistoric Archaeology from Oxford. In 2011 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bolton. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Research Associate of the Manchester Museum.
Tyldesley is a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at Manchester University where she is tutor and Programme Director of the three-year online Certificate in Egyptology programme and the two year online Diploma in Egyptology programme, run from Egyptology Online in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. She also devised, directs and teaches the on-line Short Courses in Egyptology, and has created sundry free online Egyptology courses (MOOCS), working in conjunction with the Manchester Museum.
Tyldesley is President of Bolton Archaeology and Egyptology Society, and a trustee of Chowbent Chapel, Atherton. She is also a part-qualified Chartered Accountant, and spent 17 years supporting her developing writing career by working as small business manager for Crossley and Davis Chartered Accountants in Bolton. She is an ex-trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society.
Tyldesley has extensive archaeological fieldwork experience, having excavated in Britain, Europe and Egypt.
She is married to Egyptologist Steven Snape and has two children.
Rutherford Press Limited
In 2004 she established, with Steven Snape, Rutherford Press Limited, a publishing firm dedicated to publishing serious but accessible books on ancient Egypt while raising money for Egyptology field work. Donations from RPL were made to Manchester Museum, the Egypt Exploration Society and the Liverpool University fieldwork project at Zawiyet umm el-Rakham. Rutherford Press closed in February 2017.
Writings
Tyldesley has written a wide variety of academic and popular books for adults and children, including books to accompany the television series Private Lives of the Pharaohs (Channel 4), Egypt's Golden Empire (Lion Television) and Egypt (BBC). In January 2008, her then most recent book, Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt, was the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. Her play for children, The Lost Scroll, premiered at Kendal Museum in 2011. Her book Tutankhamen's Curse (published as Tutankhamen in the USA) was awarded the 2014 Felicia A. Holton Book Award by the Archaeological Institute of America.