Toby Wilkinson is an Egyptologist and the prize-winning author of fifteen books on the history and culture of the Nile Valley, ancient and modern. Lauded by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the foremost Egyptologist of his time’ and by the New York Times as ‘a consummate historian’, his works include The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, was a Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller. Recent books include the critically acclaimed A World Beneath the Sands (New York Times editors’ choice, Amazon Top 20 Best Science Books of 2020, Times Best History Books of the Year 2020), and Tutankhamun’s Trumpet, described by the Sunday Times as ‘a revelatory history’.

Toby Wilkinson è un egittologo e autore pluripremiato di quindici libri sulla storia e la cultura della Valle del Nilo, antica e moderna. Lodato dal Daily Telegraph come “il più importante egittologo del suo tempo” e dal New York Times come “uno storico consumato”, tra le sue opere figura The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, vincitore del premio Hessell-Tiltman, libro dell’anno del Times e del Sunday Times e bestseller del New York Times. Tra i suoi libri più recenti figurano A World Beneath the Sands (scelta dalla redazione del New York Times, Amazon Top 20 Best Science Books of 2020, Times Best History Books of the Year 2020), acclamato dalla critica, e Tutankhamun’s Trumpet, descritto dal Sunday Times come “una storia rivelatrice”.