Brian Fagan

Brian Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He spent his early career in Zambia and East Africa before coming to California in 1967. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading archaeological writers, he is the author of numerous general works on archaeology, among them The Rape of the Nile, a history of Egyptology and several books on ancient climate change. His latest work is Lord and Pharaoh, a joint biography of Tutankhamun and Lord Carnarvon, to be published by Left Coast Press later this year.