Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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But it's worth emphasizing that Tutankhamen, even as a boy, is the son of a previous king.
So he has the legitimacy of that position.
Not necessarily.
There is really the belief that this child, especially once he is the pharaoh, he's the king of Egypt, that he is divine.
The advisors, I and Horemheb, can claim whatever they want and may have this kind of command of the...
They're realpolitik, but they are not anointed living gods.
So I think you've got to imagine there could be a petulant little nine-year-old saying, I want it this way.
And you've got to follow what the kid wants.
But Jim Cameron is in a moment where he must know there is pressure for counter-revolution.
So it's about managing that transition back to tradition in some ways.
I mean, it depends who has an influence on him personally.
We know of a royal tutor who doesn't seem to come to much, a guy called Senefer.
So if you have that role of being a teacher, a tutor, in some way rearing the young future or current king...
then you are incredibly powerful because you could influence this child's thinking.
But there must be an atmosphere in the aftermath of Akhenaten's death that the experiment has gone wrong.
And so it's about managing, as I say, that transition back to orthodoxy.
Yeah, I think leaning into what must have been a fairly common thought that the traditional gods of Egypt had existed for thousands of years, and Akhenaten's experiment seems to have pertained mainly to the elite, to the court surrounding the king.
So when the king disappears...
you know, the court think, what is in our best interests?
So yes, you're right, people in their homes, we know of amulets that show the old traditional gods.
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