Joann Fletcher

Dr. Joann Fletcher (born 1966) is an Egyptologist. Currently she is a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and Consultant Egyptologist for Harrogate Museums and Arts. She also contributed to the new Egyptology galleries at the new Great North Museum in Newcastle, in Ancient Egypt Daily Life galleries at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, in mummification exhibitions at Bolton and Burnley and at the Leiden's Rijksmuseum as part of their 1994 exhibition 'Clothing of the Pharaohs'

She designed the UK's first GCSE equivalent qualification in Egyptology on behalf on the government education body, Centra in 2003. She is co-founder of York University's Mummy Research Group with whom she has studied human remains from South Africa, Yemen, Italy, Ireland, the Canary Islands and Egypt, including the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. She has undertaken excavation work in Egypt, Yemen, and the UK, and has examined mummies both on-site and in collections around the world. Dr. Fletcher writes for The Guardian newspaper and the BBC's History Online Web site,(including major input into their multimedia project 'Death in Sakkara' which won the prestigious New Media Award in 2005) and has made numerous appearances on television and radio. She was lead investigator in the History Channel series Mummy Forensics and most recently was involved with Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret, a documentary for Channel 4 and Discovery, the subject of a long term project which re writes current understanding of mummification. This documentary won the prestigious 2011 Royal Television Society Awards for Science.

Her publications include Cleopatra the Great and The Search for Nefertiti, together with guidebooks, journal articles and academic papers.