Lorna Oakes

About The Author

Lorna Oakes was a lecturer in Egyptology at Birkbeck College. As a Specialist Assistant in the Education Service of the British Museum, Lorna has also delivered numerous lectures on Ancient Egypt and the Near East in the museum’s public gallery talks programme. For almost thirty years she has led small group study tours to Egypt, Syria, China and Tibet.

Books by Lorna Oakes

Stories from Herodotus
This beautiful children's history book retells Herodotus's stories and brings ancient history to life.Herodotus was a keen traveller who went all over the ancient world and was interested in everything he saw and heard. When he came back from his travels he went to Athens in Greece and gave lectu...
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