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

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chic is exactly what I call it, yes.

So rounded bellies and narrow shoulders.

I mean, that must have a molding effect on Egypt's population as well, because there is a religion, it's Islam.

And yet you've got now people becoming completely obsessed with something that entirely predates Islam or any Abrahamic religion.

Do the Egyptian newspapers, do we know, do they respond in kind?

Are there sort of ceremonies to say, you know what, it's ours, not theirs?

We did know about this.

This is our birthright, not a European one, not Howard Carter's.

Very interesting.

I mean, we sort of talked about this during our Persia series as well, the way sort of young Iranians were harkening back to- Looking to Persepolis, exactly, yeah.

Exactly that.

I mean, putting matters temporal to one side for a moment, can we talk about matters supernatural as well?

Because the curse of- Oh, we like a good curse on this program.

No, no, no.

I'm not suggesting there was a curse, but what I'm asking is in 1922, were people obsessed with the idea that, you know, this is cursed, we shouldn't talk about it, or, you know, it's killing people?

I mean, what was that sort of portrayed as at the time, both in Egypt and in Britain?

Handsome he is too.

And what's interesting is that Carter's having none of it.

He sees it for what it is and describes it as Tommy Rot.

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