As I am looking back at the #DreamsOfAmarna project, planning the eventual book, I am thinking about what changed between when I started and when I got to the end (I think, the end!). One of the things that changed the most was that I didn't use nearly as much goldwork as I expected.
We all think of #AncientEgypt as being a place of gold and glamour, full of wonders of metalworking, epitomised for most of us by the famous death mask of #Tutankhamun. Somehow, that isn't where the #embroidery and #watercolour led me.... Projects, it seems, have a mind of their own....
Scarab bracelet of lapis lazuli, set in gold, from previously-unlooted 3,300-year-old tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, excavated by Howard Carter in 1922.
How Tutankhamun died has been debated over the years. A new theory suggests that it was a drink-driving accident — a wine-induced, high-speed chariot crash. The BBC spoke to multiple mummy experts to see if they could unravel the truth.