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Our speaker is Janet Brewer with the title of ‘Who Built Tutankhamun’s Tomb?’.

“Tutankhamun died when he was only about 19 years old, we don’t know how but we do know that his tomb was one of the few, relatively intact, burials found in the Valley of the Kings. His tomb is very small in relation to the others in the Valley so was it intended for the King, or was it repurposed when he died quite young? The tomb was found by Howard Carter in November 1922 at a time when the world was coming out of World War I and the influenza epidemic, it was startling news and it is still news today. Janet will discuss all this and more.

Janet Brewer studied Egyptology at Birkbeck, part of the University of London, leaving with the Certification in Egyptology. She was a HR professional and is now happily retired and concentrating on perfecting her skills in reading hieroglyphs; a work in progress. She is the Secretary of the Essex Egyptology Group and regularly visits Egypt for study and relaxation. This talk was at 3:00 pm on Wednesday 17 July.