Dr. Campbell Price
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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · Most Famous Murder In Ancient Egypt · 18 Jun 2026
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So we have an unusual insight into labour relations.
This was the PhD subject of my PhD supervisor, so it's something I've heard a lot about.
So you have the gang who work for the king.
or not directly for the king, for the vizier, who is the top guy, the prime minister, if you like.
And it is the vizier's responsibility to organise the people and to make sure the people are paid.
Because they are living not in a lush, arable environment.
They're living on the edge of the desert in order to build the tomb, which is in the desert edge.
So they are in a totally artificial and supplied, state-supplied environment.
environment so if you don't have enough bread you can't go and buy some bread you've got to bread and water right brought to you and so we know through this very detailed documentation from the the town it's called dear el medina in modern arabic the village the the village next to the valley of the kings we know that things get so bad that rations the supply of rations breaks down and
And there is.
The first recorded strike in human history is in the reign of Ramses III.
So think about how important that is to modern political history and social history of this country.
The first time people say, hang on, and they say no to power, we're not doing it.
We're putting our tools down.
And they go and they protest.
And the vizier says, okay, I'll get you some stuff and carry on.
Because it's so embarrassing.
The king's tomb.
It's not just they're building a motorway.
They are building the tomb of a god.
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