Award-winning historian Bettany Hughes talks about how ancient Egypt's innovations in medicine, mathematics, engineering and governance shaped the modern world.
Bettany Hughes brings her talk on ancient Egypt to Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday 18 November, the final stop of a UK tour that runs from 30 October. Hughes is an award-winning historian who's spent 25 years turning ancient history into storytelling, and this is her taking that approach to the Nile.
She's well known for fronting more than 50 documentaries, watched by 250 million viewers worldwide, and has written bestsellers including The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and Venus & Aphrodite. Stephen Fry once called her 'the most perfect tour guide I know', and that's a fair way to think of her here: she's the one leading the way through a world that's usually kept behind glass or in textbooks.
In the talk, she sets out how ancient Egypt's innovations in medicine, mathematics, engineering and governance laid the foundations of the modern world, and how Egyptian ideas of the afterlife, justice and leadership still shape us today. It's not just a look back at a dead civilisation, but a way of seeing where some of our own ideas actually come from. The Nottingham date is the tour's closer, so it's the last chance to catch it on this run.
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It starts at 7:30pm and runs for an hour and 50 minutes, which includes a 20-minute interval. Tickets are between £33 and £51, and the show is recommended for ages 10 and over, so it works as a family thing if you've got older kids interested in the ancient world. You'll find it at Nottingham Playhouse, Wellington Circus, NG1 5AF.
