A Bafta winning pair of Egyptologists will return to the Royal Cornwall Museum next month

Ancient Egypt experts Joann Fletcher and Stephen Buckley will be at the museum to discuss the lives of everyday people from the era and also the lives of pharaohs and nobles in The Valley of the Kings and the science of mummies.

The Valley of the Kings in Egypt is where for nearly 500 years tombs were built for the pharaohs and powerful nobles of the time, including the resting place of boy king, Tutankhamun, discovered by Howard Carter.

Bafta award winner Joann Fletcher teaches world mummification and funerary archaeology at the University of York, and is the author of nine books, as well as having written and presented Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings and Egypt's Lost Queens for BBC2. She recently completed a four-part series Immortal Egypt, also for BBC2.

Dr Stephen Buckley is a founding member of the University of York’s mummy research group, and has discovered evidence pushing back the beginnings of Egyptian mummification by almost 2,000 years. He was lead scientist in the History Channel’s Mummy Forensics series, and lead scientist in the human mummification project filmed as the Bafta-winning Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret, in which he established exactly how Egypt's 18th dynasty royals had been mummified so successfully.

The talk will be held at the Royal Cornwall Museum on the evening of Tuesday, May 16.

Tickets cost £5 for non-members, entry is free for friends and members, and tickets can be booked at royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk or on 01872 272205.