Joyce Tyldesley is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic and freelance writer and broadcaster.

Tyldesley was born in Bolton, Lancashire and attended Bolton School. In 1981, she earned a first-class honours degree in archaeology from Liverpool University, and a doctorate from Oxford in 1986. She is the Tutor and Course Organiser of the distance learning (internet) Certificate in Egyptology Programme at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester, and a Fellow of the Manchester Museum. She is also Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at Liverpool University and an ex-trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society.

She is married with two children to Egyptologist Steven Snape and lives in Lancashire.

She has written popular books to accompany television series Private Lives of the Pharaohs, Egypt's Golden Empire and Egypt. In January 2008, her then most recent book, Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt, was the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4.

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