Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb

When Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the objects found within offered an extraordinary record of royal life, belief and material culture in New Kingdom Egypt. A century later, Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson uses one hundred of those objects to tell a broader story of the civilisation that created them.

Moving beyond the splendour of the famous treasures, Wilkinson examines objects associated with kingship, religion, warfare, food, clothing, music and everyday life. Each provides a point of entry into ancient Egyptian society and the world in which Tutankhamun lived. Richly illustrated and grounded in the archaeology of the tomb, the book presents the discovery not simply as a collection of masterpieces, but as evidence for the people, ideas and practices of ancient Egypt.