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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Well, I mean, the Ramesses name is kind of ironic because he had 100 children.
So I don't know how effective a contraception device with the name Ramesses would have been.
But I think it's both high culture, you know, really expensive, nice stuff, and pretty low culture stuff takes inspiration from pharaonic Egypt generally, but Tutankhamen in particular.
There's an element of the timing, sure, you know, that it's pretty kind of slow news days, perhaps after the First World War.
There is the gleam of gold, which always assures interest, fashion, celebrity, glamour, royalty, at a time when European monarchies were maybe not
entirely all of them feeling confident about their positions.
But then there's the act of discovery, something which, you know, it's the kind of,
the challenge of discovery, of planning and then searching, and then eventually finding this absolutely untold splendor just waiting in the sands of Egypt.
There'd always been interest, you know, interest in Egyptology was way back before Napoleon showed up, but then it just reaches this kind of fever pitch.
And along with the telecommunications and the visuals,
Yeah, it just goes wild for several years and then drops off to nothing.
No, exactly.
And I think it's not just about the bullion.
You know, it's not that there's just more gold in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
It's about the way it's fashioned, the way it's shaped, especially in the way the face of Tutankhamun literally speaks to us.
And it's something we talked about in that previous episode about the discovery.
Howard Carter's sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, whose name is inextricably linked with Tutankhamun, the curse of Tutankhamun, the greatest curse on...
was that he never saw the golden mask.
And the aesthetics of that...
well, the craftsmanship of the mask.
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