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 · 362. Ancient Egypt: Great Kings of The Bronze Age (Ep 1) · 24 May 2026 podcast

Because I was really into it, like every school child, very much into Egyptology to a very shallow degree.

But I just did think, actually, you know, we live in a day where leaks destroy important documents.

This is like the protein leak story.

I went through all my little notebooks and my really terrible drawings of Nefertiti and Tutankhamen, which will never be seen in public.

But Eric, so look, I really loved that story.

Tell me why you're doing that face, Eric.

Why are you making that face?

So when you say you think it might be a made-up story, are you, and without any kind of legal jeopardy attached to this statement, suggesting that the person who put this story around is actually hiding the fact that these could have been nicked from somewhere that they shouldn't have been nicked from?

The Rabelais documents and then falling in love all over the Rabelais documents.

Yes, I see what you mean.

Yes, very good.

I'm obsessed with Budge, if that's possible to be obsessed with Budge, because his story is just so compelling.

I mean, he came from such modest backgrounds, Cornish son of a single mother, self-taught, self-made, and then becomes Cambridge educated, rises up to be the keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum.

Which was something very humble, yeah.

But when it comes to let's just leave it at that, he wasn't like, let's not leave it at that.

Because there are some downright scurrilous things written about Budge.

The way in which he got his hands on antiquities.

I mean, there is one, you know, reportedly he dug a hole through a wall of a customs warehouse in Cairo.

to see some artifacts.

Is that true?

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