Life
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 in Prehistoric Archaeology from Oxford in 1986. In 2011 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bolton. She is a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at Manchester University where she is tutor and course organiser of the three-year distance learning (internet based) Certificate in Egyptology programme run from the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology. She also devised, directs and teaches the on-line Short Courses in Egyptology. From 2012 she will be writing and teaching the two-year internet based Diploma in Egyptology at Manchester University: an extension to the Certificate Course
She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at Liverpool University, Research Associate of the Manchester Museum, Chairperson of Bolton Archaeology and Egyptology Society, and a trustee of Chowbent Chapel, Atherton. She is also a part-qualified Chartered Accountant, and spent 17 years supporting her developing writing career by working as small business manager for Crossley and Davis Chartered Accountants in Bolton. She is an ex-trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society,
Tyldesley has extensive archaeological fieldwork experience, having excavated in Britain, Europe and Egypt.
She is married with two children to Egyptologist Steven Snape and lives in Lancashire.
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