A Review of Bob Brier’s The Murder of Tutankhamen

The Murder of Tutankhamen was written by the writer/philosopher/Egyptologist Bob Brier, Ph.D. The book was published by Berkley Books, New York in 1999 for the paperback edition. Though it was previously published in 1998. What most impressed me about the book is the volumes and volumes of very reliable sources. If looking at the back of the book for the bibliography, a person finds oneself totally transfixed by the large amounts of sources. Not only were the many sources about Tut himself, but there were many books/magazines/journals/encyclopedias/etc., of his family, Egyptian history and more. I found the book to be very insightful and organized in its way of telling how Egypt was formed, lived and died.
Brier did a good job informing people of Egypt, but I was not too interested in the book as much as the critics acclaimed it to be so fascinating. The only part of the book that really caught my attention would have the be the first chapter or so. I really liked how he ...