Dr. Campbell Price

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

Yeah, gosh, all of this.

It always reminds me of the Terry Pratchett book, Pyramids, where it's all of this investment in the afterlife of the king, pyramids of dead kings, which might drain the economy.

And who knows, maybe part of the reason Ramesses III presided over a kind of weakened state was because so much wealth went into the Valley of the Kings.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, there could be a corollary there.

There could be a connection.

So...

I think there was skepticism, but you cannot imagine... Of course, there wasn't modern scientific knowledge where people would say, aha, you're just talking rubbish, I know the truth.

There must have been, yeah, some...

healthy social scepticism that might have thought... Dissent or... Yeah, dissent.

Yeah, I mean, witness the strike.

Because would you strike against a living God if you really believed he was a living God?

See, this is... Yeah, this is... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and I think it is very important to nuance these big monumental beliefs, especially with Egypt.

Just on the train down, Anthony, I was reading a book by the great Egyptian author, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

It's called A Drift in the Nile.

And there's a line in it, he says, it doesn't surprise him that ancient Egyptians believed the king was a god, but it seems far-fetched that the king himself would believe he was a god.

So there is a healthy skepticism, I know, amongst my current Egyptian friends

about big concepts.

So you've got to allow people in the past the same leeway or the freedom to be a little bit outside the standard strictures of... That there's variation somewhere.

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