
As a result, her life has more often been reviewed by Classicists, but she is seen in this present work through the eyes of an Egyptologist.

Her latest offering, Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt, is rather different, as Tyldesley herself points out, since for most Egyptologists Cleopatra (the seventh to bear that name) is not an Egyptian queen, but a Ptolemy, a descendant of one of Alexander the Great's generals. Over the past few years, Joyce Tyldesley has established herself as perhaps the foremost popular writer on the rulers of Ancient Egypt, with books on Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Ramesses II, as well as numerous other works on ancient Egypt.
