Dr. Campbell Price

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · Most Famous Murder In Ancient Egypt · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

How do we know it's Ramesses III?

Well, he had been reburied, his tomb had been robbed.

a couple of centuries well maybe less than a couple of centuries after his death and he was moved and was put in a kind of shoddy secondary use of a coffin originally his coffin must have been probably gilded wood or solid gold and on the outside of that

second hand coffin is a text that says this is the body of Ramses III that'll do us that pretty reliable historical document but as you said he's not entirely unwrapped so you see his hands are kind of padded like he's wearing gloves or mittens and there is a there's a shroud or a kind of scarf around his neck and that was used in the Boris Karloff 1932 mummy film okay but it it really is

Yeah.

That they were afforded.

It was meant to be afforded them.

Absolutely.

It's tricky, isn't it?

You're right.

And I think that's a point worth making.

You know, it's like, I always say, like a kid at a birthday, like you give them something wrapped up and you've got to unwrap it because there's something inside they want to see.

So you can actually see Ramesses III's body in Cairo in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in a very...

quiet gallery you can't take your phone out you're not um really meant to speak uh so it's it's a certain ambience but you can see it as it is as he is in that photo but equally you know the whole process of trying the the the assailants and this conspirators was to try and

punish them for doing something bad to him and for you know compromising his dignity and killing him so the idea seems fairly clear in pharaonic texts and imagery that the body of the deceased the Sark is meant to be radiant and bound and gold covered mask and not exposed in that way so it's difficult to get round that at that period the mummified dead were meant to be put in a coffin and

buried underground and not disturbed for want of a better term so by ancient Egyptian belief the king or whoever is deceased lives through the other image so it's nice to juxtapose them because he's got his name there he's shown as ageless it's not that he's shown young or old he's just ageless he's God and that's how he was believed to exist but also we have this extraordinary case in this case in particular where you have

the leg, the historical legacy, this uncanny survival of the body, and then the historical document that describes the people who bumped him off.

So it kind of triangulates to making a really intriguing story, which I think is more intriguing than Ramesses the second, because you get something of the kind of motivations of the people.

Well, do you know, there are some sources that talk about, that have a sceptical view

tone to them so you do get texts that say well lemon carpe diem live for the moment because you know no one's coming back from there the beyond so there is a certain note of

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