Toby Wilkinson is an English Egyptologist and academic. After studying Egyptology at the University of Cambridge, he was Lady Wallis Budge Research Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s College, Cambridge and then a research fellow at the University of Durham. He became a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge in 2003. Since 2022, he has been Fellow for Development and then Bursar at Clare College, Cambridge. Toby Wilkinson was awarded the 2011 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for his book The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra.

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