Anita Arnon
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
KV35, it's catchy.
It's like an episode of Dynasty.
Goodness me, what was going on here?
To keep it very simple,
Now, I want to bring us to the fact that she sits now in Berlin, in a Berlin museum.
And this connection with Germany is completely fascinating as well, I think.
Ludwig Brockhardt, the archaeologist, diplomat, nationalist, whatever you want to call him, who sort of first got his hands on the bust.
He kind of walked into a workshop that seemed as if, you know, the sculptor just ran off into the night, left everything behind.
Whatever the equivalent of ancient sketchbooks are, but a lot of material in a workshop that was just left like that.
Interesting.
And tell us about the German man who discovers it, because there's a little bit of slight of handery that goes on here with labelling it so that it does end up in a German collection rather than in Egypt.
He pulled a fast one.
Totally pulled a fast one.
Come off it, Aidan.
Come on.
Well, it's a German-German thing because it ends up that French don't get anywhere close to it.
But it becomes this major thing for Germany.
You want to give them the benefit of the doubt?
That's fine.
That's fine if you want to.