Dr. Campbell Price

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Empire: World History · 367. Ancient Egypt: “Tut-mania” And Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Ep 6) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast
We're used to the blockbuster.
We're used to the idea of a big show rolling into town.
Photography and documentaries and films and books make this stuff quite accessible.
But in the 1970s, you know, the first big glossy colour books about Tutankhamun were coming out.
So even if you didn't go to the exhibition, you might see a documentary film on television or you might buy a book.
Yeah, exactly.
It's worth saying, you know, in the Quran, in the Muslim holy book,
You know, the Pharaoh is not depicted well.
He's not depicted well in the Bible, I guess, or the Torah, but to call someone a Pharaoh is an insult.
It's, you know, the mark of a tyrant.
Yeah, yeah, it goes to other venues.
And again, I know plenty of people who are practising Egyptologist now who were inspired by those shows of the later 70s into the 1980s.
Where did you first see it?
I first saw the mask of Tutankhamun in Cairo in 2001, my first visit to Egypt with my parents.
But subsequently as a student working in the Cairo Museum on a databasing project for a few weeks, I remember when the cleaners were in, going in before the public entered and having a few minutes alone with the mask.
And that is easily one of the best moments of my entire life.
So the old museum in which I had that encounter is still very close to my heart and is still packed full of jaw-dropping treasures from Pharaonic and later Egypt.
But the new museum, the Grand Egyptian Museum, is out at Giza by the Pyramid.
And so it was initially conceptualised to house the Tutankhamun treasures.
But there are plenty more galleries, including a huge museum dedicated to boats of King Khufu.
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