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Joann Fletcher (born 30 Aug 1966, in Barnsley, South Yorkshire〔()〕) is an Egyptologist and Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. She has published a number of books and academic articles, including on Cleopatra, and made numerous television and radio appearances. In 2003 she controversially claimed to have identified the mummy of Queen Nefertiti. ==Career== She went to University College London to study ancient history and Egyptology. She specialised in the Ptolemies (one of the ancient Egyptian dynasties) and Cleopatra and also in ancient Egyptian hair, wigs and forms of adornment - she did her PhD at the University of Manchester on hair and wigs. Currently Fletcher is Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and Consultant Egyptologist for Harrogate Museums and Arts. She also contributed to the new Egyptology galleries at the new Great North Museum in Newcastle, in Ancient Egypt Daily Life galleries at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, in mummification exhibitions at Bolton and Burnley and at the Leiden's Rijksmuseum as part of their 1994 exhibition 'Clothing of the Pharaohs' Fletcher designed the UK's first GCSE equivalent qualification in Egyptology on behalf on the government education body, Centra in 2003. She is co-founder of York University's Mummy Research Group with whom she has studied human remains from South America, Yemen, Italy, Ireland, the Canary Islands and Egypt, including the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. She has undertaken excavation work in Egypt, Yemen, and the UK, and has examined mummies both on-site and in collections around the world. Fletcher writes for ''The Guardian'' newspaper and the BBC's History Online Web site,(including major input into their multimedia project 'Death in Sakkara' which won the New Media Award in 2005) and has made numerous appearances on television and radio. She was lead investigator in the History Channel series ''Mummy Forensics'' and most recently was involved with ''Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret'', a documentary for Channel 4 and Discovery, the subject of a long term project which rewrites current understanding of mummification. This documentary won the 2011 Royal Television Society Award for Science and Natural History and also the BAFTA for Specialist Factual programme. Her publications include ''Cleopatra the Great'' and ''The Search for Nefertiti'', together with guidebooks, journal articles and academic papers.〔http://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/research-staff/joann-fletcher/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joann Fletcher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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