Dr Chris Naunton

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Folks, we’re nearing the end of the first series of Talk Like An Egyptian. Thank so much to all of you for listening, and extra thanks to you those of you who have downloaded episodes, subscribed, clicked the ‘like’ button, and given us five-star ratings. www.patreon.com/collection/1...

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...

Egyptologist to speak at Missouri S&T library Egyptologist Dr. Chris Naunton will speak about the search for the tombs of some of Egypt’s most famous rulers and sign books at the Curtis Laws Wilson Library at Missouri S&T this week.

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

Thanks for listening!

It's been a long time coming (since 2021, thank you COVID...) and I'm so pleased it's nearly upon us. And I have a bit of teaching / lecturing to do at Missouri University of Science and Technology first. Excited!

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...

Talk Like An Egyptian | Patreon A podcast about Ancient Egypt with Chris Naunton & Iszi Lawrence

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!

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Hope to see you soon 😊

It’s great to have a live audience with me for the broadcast of these talks, not least as it gives us all the chance for a few questions and a bit of discussion but the recordings are available to members straight afterwards so you don’t have to be there at the time, you can watch whenever you want.

Chris Naunton Dr Naunton is an Egyptologist and author of Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2018) and Egyptologists’ Notebooks (T&H, 2020). He has presented numerous television documentaries, ...

For anyone new to my YouTube lectures, you’ll need to be a member in the ‘Lapis’ category in order to watch the new talks. Some of my older lectures are freely available to all, but members get access to the complete archive. The channel is here: www.youtube.com/@Christopher...

The Divine Child in Ancient Egypt
Wednesday 14 January 2026
www.youtube.com/live/YdewgIG...

Butehamun: Tomb Inspections, Robberies & Caches
Wednesday 11 February 2026
www.youtube.com/live/uk3xgJd...

Roman Egypt in the Eyes of Strabo
Friday 17 October 2025
www.youtube.com/live/Xk-PzXP...

Mentuhotep II and the Rise of Thebes
Thursday 27 Nov 2025
www.youtube.com/live/qzSlHGH...

The Tomb of Thutmose II… FOUND!
Tuesday 23 December 2025
www.youtube.com/live/MGHzaSv...

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...

And there’s plenty more to see too: Saqqara, the GEM, Old Cairo, Bubastis and Tanis, Rosetta, Alexandria, Abydos, Luxor and two further special permits, for Herakleopolis and Antinoopolis respectively. CANNOT WAIT for the first departure in October this year, and now this second departure too!

Those of you who followed that slightly madcap project will know that I wasn’t certain that the catacomb still existed but it seems it does and I could not be more excited by the prospect of visiting! www.ancient.co.uk/holiday/the-...

Very excitingly, this time we have secured permission to go into the Grand Catacomb in Alexandria, which was the subject of my ‘Baths of Cleopatra’ research in lockdown: chrisnaunton.com/2020/12/08/t...

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-...

And finally, I get to enter the temple with AWT next year on this trip: www.ancient.co.uk/holiday/temp... If you’d like to join me you’d be very welcome – there are still a few places left!

The temple’s reliefs would also have been fabulous, as many examples scattered around museum collections show, but they survive only in thousands of fragments which have never even been properly studied. Robert Anderson Trust alumnus Maarten Praet is putting that right now with his doctoral research

The latter was inspired by the architecture of Mentuhotep’s temple which may have been every bit as impressive although you’d never know it now as it hasn’t had been restored in the way the Hatshepsut temple has....

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.

And in addition to that & loads of other stuff in Luxor we’ll also be visiting AWT favourite the tomb of Senusret III at Abydos – badge of honour to all those who manage the clambering all the way to the very end and back 😊 Come and join us! www.ancient.co.uk/holiday/temp...

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...

Links & further reading I always try to follow up my online lectures with a page of notes on the sources I used , further reading and other resources online for anyone wanting to take their interest in the topics I cover …

I’ve also been catching up with adding pages of links and further reading for the labyrinth talk and two others: ‘How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (and the Abydos Kinglists)’ and ‘MEGALITHS in ANCIENT EGYPT: The Osireion’. All are available via this page: chrisnaunton.com/links-furthe... Enjoy!