Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Search for Tutankhamun

Brian Fagan

Mar 2015 · Left Coast Press

About this ebook

Both born to power and wealth, and raised by courtiers, they lived lives of aristocrats and landowners, in poor health and with uncertain futures. Though they lived over 3000 years apart, the lives of Egyptian King Tutankhamun and the fifth Lord Carnarvon share many parallels, not the least of which was Carnarvon’s sponsorship of the team that found the pharaoh’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Brian Fagan’s narrative expertly weaves these two lives together, showing similarities and differences between these two powerful men.

-Both figures are placed in their historical context, showing the political and social machinations of 18th Dynasty Egypt and 20th century archaeological exploration in Egypt.
-Grounded in historical and archaeological research, the two figures are made to come alive as real people.
-An Afterword by the author shows archaeologists how to tell research stories that are accessible to a wider audience.

About the author

Brian Fagan is the most celebrated and widely read popular writer on archaeology in the United States. Emeritus professor of anthropology at University of California Santa Barbara, he is author of dozens of popular books, many of the leading textbooks, several reference volumes, as well as numerous scholarly works on archaeology in all of its facets. Fagan regularly appears as a commentator or writer in media programs on archaeology. His account of early Egyptology, The Rape of the Nile, is now in its third edition and is regarded as a classic of the genre. He also wrote the acclaimed Egypt of the Pharaohs for the National Geographic Society. Fagan has won numerous awards for his writing and teaching from professional archaeological organizations.