Book cover for Tutankhamun's Trumpet

Tutankhamun's Trumpet

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11 May 2023
496 pages
9781529045987
Imprint: Picador

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Beautifully written, sumptuously illustrated, constantly fascinating and the work of a man who is practised at explaining the past to the present.
The cleverness of the book lies in how individual grave goods are used to crack open the mindset of a civilisation . . . This book thrums with life. To the ancient Egyptians, a pharaoh’s tomb was a “resurrection machine” and, in a sense, they were right. The dead cannot be resurrected but, through the artefacts they used, we can sense the lives they lived. I’ve read many books on ancient Egypt, but I’ve never felt closer to its people
The Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes 100 of the most curious of those finds and uses them to unlock the mysteries of Egyptian history and culture.