Robert Temple has written many books on the subject of the ancient world. Robert Temple is a well-known author, historian, and historian of science in England. He is Chairman of The Ancient Egypt Foundation which is funding the cleaning and restoration of the astronomical ceiling at the Temple of Khnum at Esna, on the Nile, where important revelations about ancient Egyptian astronomy are coming to light. He has written a comprehensive history of inventions and discoveries in China over 3000 years, The Genius of China; a three-volume work Who Killed the King? about the trial and execution of the English King Charles I in 1649; and A New Science of Heaven (2022) which discusses the dilemma of cosmology as faced with the inadequacy of contemporary physics. His other books cover many subjects. He recently published his first book of fiction: The Tree’s Sadness, and Other Strange Stories (2023).