Dominic Sandbrook
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Has it been sent back for dignified burial?
Professor Dan Hicks, I think it was.
Of course.
Yes.
He'd be very against that.
Yeah.
Woke professor campaigned against it.
Worcester College, Worcester College.
And I wrote a column for the Times with the excellent headline, drinking from skulls is a noble tradition.
Well, it is.
It clearly is.
He is.
And he's a bright fellow because actually we learned that one of the Spanish conquistadors said he's the most educated and capable Indian that's ever been seen to such an extent that he plays chess very well.
So they taught him chess.
Yeah.
He sounds like a tremendous companion.
Yeah.
So Francisco Pizarro's page, who was a cousin of his, a teenager called Pedro, he wrote down an account of Atahualpa's daily rituals, which is actually really interesting.
Atahualpa would sit on this little stool and he was always attended by beautiful young women.
They would bring him his food in golden bowls.