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Cleopatra VII at the temple of Dendera
Academics at The University of Manchester have dismissed the long-held argument that the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra was killed by a snake bite.
Andrew Gray, Curator of Herpetology at Manchester Museum (and fellow blogger), says venomous snakes in Egypt Cobras or Vipers would have been too large to get unseen into the queen’s palace.
He was speaking to fellow Manchester Egyptologist Dr Joyce Tyldesley in a new video which is part of a new online course introducing ancient Egyptian history, using six items from the Museum’s collection.
According to Dr Tyldesley, the ancient accounts say a snake hid in a basket of figs brought in from the countryside, and was also used to kill one or two of her serving maids.
But according to Andrew Gray, Cobras are typically 5 to 6 feet long but can grow up to 8 feet – too big to hide very easily.
There would also be too little time to kill 2 or 3 p
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Joyce Ann Tyldesley (born 25 February ) is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic, writer and broadcaster who specialises in the women of ancient Egypt.
Life
Tyldesley was born in Bolton, Lancashire and attended Bolton School. In she earned a first-class honours degree in the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean from Liverpool University. Her doctoral studies were undertaken at Oxford University; first at St Anne's College then, following the award of a scholarship, at St Cross College. In she was awarded a doctorate in Prehistoric Archaeology from Oxford University. Her thesis was written about Mousterian bifaces (handaxes) in Northern Europe. Tyldesley then joined the staff of Liverpool University, teaching Prehistoric Archaeology.
Tyldesley then worked as a freelance Egyptologist/archaeologist; writing books, working with television companies, and teaching in further and higher education and online. Tyldesley has 2 children, Philippa an