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Christopher Hugh Naunton is a British Egyptologist, a writer and a broadcaster, and an expert on the life of Flinders Petrie.

He studied Egyptology at the universities of Birmingham and Swansea, and obtained his PhD. He has been director of the Egypt Exploration Society and president of the International Association of Egyptologists. In 2013, he presented Tutankhamun: The mystery of the Burnt Mummy on Channel 4 in the UK.

Chris Naunton has been involved in a program for teaching Egyptology and the history of ancient Egypt named Playing in the Past, a T.tv series, based on the reconstructions of the video game "Assassin's Creed Origins", 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.

Chris Naunton has his own website, Twitter account, and YouTube channel.

Books

• Naunton, Christopher Hugh (2011). Regime Change and the Administration of Thebes During the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. Swansea University.
• Naunton, Chris (24 September 2019). Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-77452-6.
• Naunton, Chris; Karsten, Guilherme (28 May 2021). King Tutankhamun Tells All!. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-65255-8.
• Naunton, Chris (2020). Egyptologists' Notebooks: The Golden Age of Nile Exploration in Words, Pictures, Plans, and Letters. Getty Publications. ISBN 978-1-60606-676-8.

References

1. Pischikova, Elena (2014). Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis: Thebes, Karakhamun (TT 223), and Karabasken (TT 391) in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. American University in Cairo Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-977-416-618-1.
2. Gabolde, Marc (30 September 2015). Toutankhamon (in French). Pygmalion. p. 307. ISBN 978-2-7564-1789-9.
3. Page Former Presidents and Secretaries General on the IAE website.
4. Heath, Julian (19 February 2015). Archaeology Hotspot Egypt: Unearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-7591-2402-8.
5. Craig, Jo (11 March 2021). "Egyptologists Use Assassin's Creed: Origins To Teach History". TheGamer.
6. "Why Three Egyptologists Are Teaching History Through Assassin's Creed Origins". news.ubisoft.com.
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVucZ2VYP50
8. https://chrisnaunton.com/
9. https://twitter.com/chrisnaunton
10. https://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherNaunton

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