Dr. Campbell Price

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · Inside the Egyptian Underworld · 18 May 2026 podcast

And this is the kind of entity you might appeal to in a temple statue if you're allowed into a temple.

Or maybe you're allowed a bust of one of these individuals in your house in around 12.

100 BCE in the south of Egypt.

So there are different ways to experience gods and there are different ways to experience the dead.

The major qualification for being a god is you can be represented.

So you can be shown in a painting or a carving or a statue.

And it is just an observational thing that there are things in this room

that will last longer than we will last.

And I think there was an acknowledgement that a statue of someone could far outlast biological life.

And that was the aim, the kind of the target to which to aspire.

So they are taking him to a specialist, an embalmer, and that group of people...

probably at some remove from society you don't go to an undertaker on the high street they probably have a workshop understandably on a hill that gets the breeze and that person for 70 days is treated

to the ritual of mummification and i said this before and i will say it again we have this very morbid fascination curiosity it's true throughout history in the gory details of what happens to the dead yeah and you you see it in all kinds of contexts in egyptology it's a fascination of the gory procedure of removing organs brain out the nose all that stuff that i

An eight year old can tell you.

But actually, the ritual of mummification is about changing the body, not preserving it.

So it's not, oh, granny looks so peaceful.

This concept of granny looking as granny looked in an armchair is a modern one.

death irrevocably changes the body and so the ancient Egyptians lean into this and strive towards if they're striving towards anything the transformation of the body into a divine form and I'm choosing my words very carefully here because in some ways it's objectification and I don't mean that to say that they treated people as objects it's because of the modern disregard for objects and our own very poor

The way in which we view things now is very dismissive of what we might call objects.

But in ancient times, as I said, rocks, marshes, special formations in the landscape are all divine.

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