Dr. Campbell Price
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Empire: World History · 367. Ancient Egypt: “Tut-mania” And Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Ep 6) · 10 Jun 2026
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They do, Anita, they absolutely do.
And it's worth saying 1922 also represented the centenary of the decipherment of hieroglyphs by Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion.
So it was a double whammy of Egyptomania.
And it's difficult to, I think, yeah, overemphasize just what Tutankhamen meant, how much he caught the zeitgeist of the moment in the 1920s.
Well, going into the excavation, Carter and the team didn't know that Tutankhamun was a boy.
That was information that came out from the discovery and ageing of his body.
But when it became known that he died about the age of 18, of course, yeah, that resonated with...
that lost generation of young men in Europe and the aesthetics of the tomb, the idea of discovery, the idea of finding something that was hidden and was secret.
But then you've got to remember, yeah, roaring 20s, art deco, all that angularity and geometric design that the tomb was filled with.
really spoke to the moment.
Yeah, in a way, it's the first big global news story that's not about war.
In the aftermath of the First World War, you're right, there's improvement in communications, there's a greater use of colour.
So not just in newspapers, but a lot of the Tutankhamen material was visualised in the Illustrated London News.
That's where you could see a lot of the
photographs often colorized photographs of the fine so it spread not only because it was a great story but because there was a means to communicate to literally to telegraph this this news around the world and advertisers who are never backwards about coming forwards they jump all over it very very quickly don't they because you have pretty much egyptian motifs on on everything
Yeah, there's a great rage for Tutankhamen.
I mean, everything from soap to clothing to contraceptives are Egypt-themed.
So yes, yes, it's a big moment.
Tell me about the Egyptian-themed contraceptives.
I think it's the first time Christ is born.
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