Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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So things which to us or which to a specialist might look like
paleopathology so diseases endured or not endured in life or the cause of death these in fact are artefacts of mummification the fact that the body has been changed by being completely dehydrated covered in resins oils and been left for 3000 years so actually CT scans are very difficult to interpret so I completely love this it's you know basically give the guy a break he might have been fine
No, he's born Tutankhaten or Tutankhuaten.
So as you said, that is the sun disk, the gods, the deity who his father favours.
So his father is born Amenhotep, so a very traditional name, Amenhotep, son of Amenhotep.
And then at some point early on in his reign, as you said, he simply rips up the rule book, moves the court to a really desolate part of Middle Egypt, which he says is not sacred to any god or any goddess, and sets up shop completely afresh.
So Tutankhamun is born into this moment.
He's given the name Tutankhuaten, which means something like...
the living image of the sun disk, which is very appropriate for the time, which will change in a kind of counter-revolutionary moment.
But he must grow up at the site of what we today refer to as Tell el Amarna.
This is the site in ancient times called
Akhetaten, not to be confused with Akhenaten, that's the name of the king, that's Tut's dad.
Akhetaten means horizon of the Aten.
This is the capital city where Akhenaten basically says he's never going to leave.
So Tutankhamun as a boy, as a prince, will have had a very comfortable existence as it went and presumably some hopes were pinned on him because he was the male child of the reigning king.
Is it quartzite?
Quartzite is favoured because it's this reddish, orangish colour, as you've seen.
Solar, it's got solar associations.
But something to say about the booming sculpture of the royal family.
It is unusual that the children of a monarch...
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