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 popped.
They popped.
Absolutely popped.
Yeah, and emphasis on the soft power, because although, as I said, Tutankhamen or items from Tutankhamen's tomb had been on tour in the United States in the 60s, you know, big stuff like the gold mask really do speak to this diplomacy.
The numbers also, I suspect, really shocked people because there are hundreds of thousands of people queuing up and it gets...
Yeah, it gets the cultural products of one country in the newspapers of another.
So it does help with diplomacy.
But then the relationship, I think, with the USSR cools on the international scene generally.
But that with the United States warms up.
And that introduces the possibility of a return visit for Tutankhamen with bigger, flasher things, including the mask, in the second half of the 1970s.
I've not heard that one, but I would fully believe it.
Yeah.
And I think that's probably also more generally in museums, the idea of the temporary touring exhibition as a diplomatic tool comes to the fore.
It's not just for ancient Egyptian material.
So yeah, I mean, Tutankhamun can go places that maybe politicians can't, or you can smooth the way.
And that has, yeah, reverberations in pop culture, particularly in America.
Yeah, for Egyptology.
I suspect it probably was the 70s.
And subsequent exhibitions haven't been able to replicate that sense of real excitement.
Because we're quite used to it now.
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