David Murdoch is a principal teaching fellow in the History department of the University of Leeds. His previous titles include Eyewitness Guides: Cowboy and Eyewitness Guides: North American Indian which won the New York City Library's Teenage Book of the Year award in 1995.

This discovery; the characters; the Valley of the Kings; the hidden steps; breaking through; the antechamber; the burial chamber; the treasury; the annexe; unwrapping the mummy; treasures of the tomb; the journey to the tomb; "wonderful things"; life and times of Tutankhamun; the kingdom of the Nile; gods and religion; the pharaoh; who was Tutankhamun?; mummies and embalming; the archaeologists at work.