Anita Arnand

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1,099 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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Empire: World History · 367. Ancient Egypt: “Tut-mania” And Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Ep 6) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand.

We're so delighted to have you back.

We did a bonus episode for anybody who wants to go and listen where we talked in depth about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

For those of you who want to listen to it, join our club, empirepoduk.com, empirepoduk.com.

But it

You know, we talked about this man, Howard Carter, unlikely because he wasn't from one of the top notches of British education establishment, an Egyptologist who discovers the intact tomb of Tutankhamun.

It's the best preserved pharaonic tomb in existence.

And Howard Carter, after this 1922 discovery, Campbell, the world goes nuts for King Tut.

And I suppose that's not a coincidence when so many people are thinking about, you know, the senseless loss of young lives, Tutankhamun, the boy king, and, you know, the world has just come out of World War I where so many young men died.

I'm so glad you asked because it was the question I wanted to know the answer to.

Yes, do tell us about the contraceptives.

What are we talking about?

Was it sort of obelisk?

I mean, oh no, genuinely, Campbell, what do you want to know?

So Carter gets bombarded with silly requests, things like, can you send us the designs of the shoes because we want to make footwear?

You've got grocers wanting to sell packets of mummified food, as you say, from everything, soap, gloves, everything else is sort of just getting stamped with hieroglyphs and these faces that have been exposed.

Why?

Now you tell me, why do you think

Campbell, that this tut mania suddenly takes hold?

What was it about this tomb and its contents?

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