User:Alan M Fildes

Alan M Fildes is a Historian of the ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations. With particular specialization in hieroglyphs, the Old Kingdom, related pyramid sites and the career of Alexander the Great. He has lectured extensively and published works include Alexander the Great Son of the Gods with Joann Fletcher.

He is the founder of NEMES a society for the study of Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom Egypt in 1998.

He has is own picture archive that regularly supplies publishers and television companies.

He has worked in Egypt in the field at Saqqara and in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 1998, also tour manager and hosted Nile Cruises.

Television and Radio The Search, Channel 4, January 2007. Mummy Forensics, The Sealed Coffin, History Channel, March 2008. Mummy Forensics, The Misfit, History Channel, March 2008. BBC Radio Manchester on a number of occasions.

Bibliography

1999 New Discoveries at Saqqara: The Tomb of Merefnebef`, Nile Offerings vi p. 13-15

2000 The Abusir Papyrus: Passport to the Pyramid Age`, Nile Offerings viii p.20-21

2001 Son of the Gods; Alexander the Great` DBP, London.

Ankhtifi and his Valiant Band` Tour Egypt: Egyptian Tourism Ministry website Maidum, Lisht and a close Encounter with Bauval` Timeless el-Kab` Egypt Voyager. Consultant; Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, DBP, London Consultant/contributor `The Tomb of Nefermaat and Rahotep at Maidum; Egyptian Tombs of the Old Kingdom`, Vol,1, Oxford Picture consultant; `Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt`,Anness Publishing, London Tutor University of York, Extra Mural, Early Egypt, Predynastic to the End of the Pyramid Age,2004/2005

He was invited to launch the Premiere of `Mysteries of Egypt`at Rheged in Cumbria