Christopher Hugh Naunton is a British

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , ''-logia''; ) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end ...

, a writer and a broadcaster, and an expert on the life of

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. He studied Egyptology at the universities of Birmingham and Swansea, and obtained his

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. He has been director of the

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and president of the International Association of Egyptologists. In 2013, he presented ''Tutankhamun: The mystery of the Burnt Mummy'' on

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in the UK. Chris Naunton has been involved in a program for teaching Egyptology and the

history of ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt spans the period of Egyptian history from the early prehistoric Egypt, prehistoric settlements of the northern Nile valley to the Roman Egypt, Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. The pharaonic period, the period in which Egypt wa ...

named ''Playing in the Past'', a T.tv series, based on the reconstructions of the video game "

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", which he considers as "the best visualization of ancient Egypt". Chris Naunton was involved with the 2017 excavation of the Pyramid of King's Daughter Hatshepsut at

Dahshur DahshurAlso transliterated ''Dahshour'' (in English often called ''Dashur''; ' ) is an ancient Egyptian pyramid complex and necropolis and shares the name of the nearby village of Manshiyyat Dahshur () in markaz Badrashin, Giza Governorate, Giza ...

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