It’s close to 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb gripped the world. And yet in many ways, very little has changed in the search for the lost tombs of the pharaohs. We know there’s a lot of them out there, but with the dust and sand of millennia heaped on them, it’s the original needle in a haystack situation. And yet as modern technology offers hitherto unimaginable views of the desert, are we about to enter a new era of discovery in Egypt? Egyptologist Chris Naunton brings us up to speed on the quest so far from page 44.
Chris Naunton (right) searches for lost treasures in Egypt
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A little closer to home, Alison Weir takes us back to Tudor times with the wretched story of Lady Jane Grey (p36), England’s nine-day-queen, who, through very little fault of her own, was executed when she was just a teenager.