BOOK OF THE MONTH
Tutankhamun: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma
By Joyce Tyldesley Headline, £22, hardback, 320 pages
The tale of Tutankhamun - the 14th-century BC boy-king whose tomb and its glittering grave goods were discovered a century ago - is among the most famous in all of global history and archaeology. Yet, as Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley investigates in her new book, it is also one deeply clouded