Toby Wilkinson

Toby Wilkinson is an English Egyptologist and academic whose books cover ancient Egypt from its earliest dynasties to Cleopatra. His titles include Early Dynastic Egypt, which looks at the centuries after unification, and Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings, a biography of the pharaoh. His history The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, which spans from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, won him the 2011 Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He is also a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.