Tutankhamun’s Trumpet

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“Wilkinson is a consummate historian.… He has mastered the facts with painstaking research and allowed them to speak for themselves. Rarely do facts speak this clearly.” — Rosemary Mahoney, “[A] dramatic, detailed and eccentric-packed story.” — Dominic Green, Marking the one hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s magnificent tomb, its incredible treasures are revealed as never before. 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. US

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