Dr Chris Naunton
@chrisnaunton.bsky.social
Egyptologist. Books, TV, online lectures. Director of The Robert Anderson Trust
We’ll be answering questions and having a catch up. There may even be some discussion of a possible second series… If you can’t make the live broadcast the recording will also be available soon afterwards too of course. See you there!
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We’ll be answering questions and having a catch up. There may even be some discussion of a possible second series… If you can’t make the live broadcast the recording will also be available soon afterwards too of course. See you there!
If you haven’t listened yet please do – you’ll find us on Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/5SrJQC8...), Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...), YouTube (youtu.be/uCqhOsT976c?...) or wherever else you get your podcasts.
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you haven’t listened yet please do – you’ll find us on Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/5SrJQC8...), Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...), YouTube (youtu.be/uCqhOsT976c?...) or wherever else you get your podcasts.
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...
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...
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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...
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...
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...
September 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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...
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!
September 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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...
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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!
August 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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!
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...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
www.youtube.com/live/YdewgIG...
Butehamun: Tomb Inspections, Robberies & Caches
Wednesday 11 February 2026
www.youtube.com/live/uk3xgJd...
August 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
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...
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...
August 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
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...
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...
August 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
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!
August 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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!
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...
August 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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...
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!
August 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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
August 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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....
August 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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.
August 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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...
August 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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...
August 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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...
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...
June 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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...
This also includes an appreciation of the great Prof Harry Smith, with whom Sue worked at Saqqara, and who died last year.
June 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This also includes an appreciation of the great Prof Harry Smith, with whom Sue worked at Saqqara, and who died last year.
Sneaking in another photo of me too - don’t normally like having my camera hijacked on the presumption that I don’t know how to use it and must want photos of myself, but I admit this one is ok, so thank you to @el_bertawy_photography for taking it!
May 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Sneaking in another photo of me too - don’t normally like having my camera hijacked on the presumption that I don’t know how to use it and must want photos of myself, but I admit this one is ok, so thank you to @el_bertawy_photography for taking it!
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!
May 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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!
…but the cloisters around the sides were cooler, and clearly a wonderful place to sit and read. Wish we’d had more time…Funny moment when someone thought I’d left my shoes behind when I went wandering only to find that I had mine with me, and some else was perhaps looking for theirs… (2/2)
May 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
…but the cloisters around the sides were cooler, and clearly a wonderful place to sit and read. Wish we’d had more time…Funny moment when someone thought I’d left my shoes behind when I went wandering only to find that I had mine with me, and some else was perhaps looking for theirs… (2/2)