Dr Christopher Hugh Naunton is an British Egyptologist, writer and broadcaster. An expert on Egypt in the first millennium BC and the history of Egyptology, he has published extensively on both subjects, and has presented numerous related television documentaries, including Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy (2013) and King Tut's Tomb: The Hidden Chamber (2016). He worked for many years at the Egypt Exploration Society, London, acting as its Director between 2012 and 2016. In 2015 he was elected President of the International Association of Egyptologists and in 2016 he became Director of the Robert Anderson Trust, a charity that provides support for young scholars visiting London to further their studies and research.
He studied Egyptology at the universities of Birmingham and Swansea, and obtained his PhD. He has been director of the Egypt Exploration Society and president of the International Association of Egyptologists. In 2013, he presented Tutankhamun: The mystery of the Burnt Mummy on Channel 4 in the UK.
Chris Naunton has been involved in a program for teaching Egyptology and the history of ancient Egypt named Playing in the Past, a T.tv series, based on the reconstructions of the video game "Assassin's Creed Origins", which he considers as "the best visualization of ancient Egypt".
