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Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's Best Selling History magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthon. For today's podcast, we have a lecture from our 2019 History Weekend event in Chester.

This lecture comes from the Egyptologist Chris Norton based on his book, Searching for the Lost Tooms of Egypt,

in which Chris talks about some of the most fascinating ancient figures whose tombs are yet to be discovered,

including Alexander the Great, Nefertiti and Cleopatra.

And asks, will there burial places ever be found?

Thank you very much for coming. It's a pleasure to be here.

I don't often get to speak about anything to anybody in a space as nice as this. So this is already a great pleasure for me.

I'm going to be speaking today about the subject of my last book, Searching for the Lost Tooms of Egypt.

I'm sure I've got all the answers. But I want at least to raise a few questions and throw a few possibilities your way, maybe.

The aim of the book really was to get people thinking about what's possible, what's been done, what might yet be to come for archaeologists in Egypt.

So today, I'm trying to cram as much as I can over this book into the next 45 minutes or so. I'm going to tell you a little bit about how the book came about,

what the reasons behind writing a book like this were, to give you a kind of overview of the main stories that I tell in the book.

And stories is an appropriate word, I think. And then we're going to focus on one case study in some detail.

So story starts with this question.

And this is a question that those of us in Egyptology get asked quite a lot. I think, is there anything left to find in Egypt?

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