Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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Well, surely this kind of historical detail is inaccessible.
We do know he marries his sister, or half-sister, a lady called Ankhes Enpa Aten, or a girl, really.
She might be a bit older than him, but she changes her name to Ankhes Enpa Amun.
as he changes his name to Tutankhamun.
So they drop the Aten and they move back to the capital, to Memphis, and they start building at Thebes.
So this is expected, that a young king will marry a relatively close female relative.
Maybe it was for love or affection, more likely just for dynastic reasons.
And she features in a number of items from his tomb.
She's named, she's depicted in various ways.
So from the get-go, I think, you don't just get a king on his own, you get a great royal wife, you get a queen as well.
Well, I think it's important to say that those craftsmen, those artisans were specialists, not just in the sense of knowing how to work materials and specialists in certain techniques, but also religious specialists.
So if you were crafting the statue of the king or a statue of a god, you had to be someone who was initiated into not just a kind of trade guild, but into the initiations and the mysteries of the gods.
And we know around the time of the Restoration, Tutankhamen and a couple of reigns later, there are craftsmen who boast about
being initiated and going around and restoring, putting back in order all the temples and all the statues that had been smashed up by Akhenaten and his agents.
So you've got to imagine there would be a lot of work going about for a specialist stonemason craftsman to set right again what Akhenaten had cast us under.
Now, much has been made of this.
So Tutankhamun's tomb, remember, is the only royal tomb of the New Kingdom period found intact.
So everything seems exceptional because we've got it.
It survives.
And Howard Carter, as I said in another episode, was uniquely placed to know what might be in a tomb because he'd found lots of fragments of these kinds of objects.
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