Joyce Tyldesley is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Manchester, where she teaches a suite of online courses to students worldwide. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Manchester Museum. Joyce has extensive experience of excavating in Britain, Europe and Egypt. She is the author of many bestselling books about ancient Egypt. Her book Cleopatra: Egypt's Last Queen was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week; her book Tutankhamun won the Felicia A. Holton Book Award, given by the Archaeological Institute of America.

Jackson is General Editor of The World's Greatest Myths and Legends series, with titles including 'Myths of Babylon', 'Indian Myth', 'Egyptian Myth', 'Norse Myth' and 'Polynesian Island Myth'. He is editor of 'Myths and Legends' and foreword writer for 'Celtic Myths and Tales'. Other related work includes articles on the Philosophy of Time, 'Macbeth, A Gothic Chaos' and William Blake's use of mythology in his visionary literature.

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