Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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It's really only been in the last 50 or so years with more medicalised, some might say clinicised, treatments of Tutankhamen that focus has been on his perceived disability.
And so from this narrative springs the assumption, oh, he had lots of sticks and staves because he needed them.
I'm sceptical of this.
You're sceptical of quite a lot, Campbell.
Yes, you are.
Well, that's the fun part of being an Egyptologist.
Yeah.
To pick apart your colleagues' papers.
So, clearly in ancient Egyptian iconography, holding a big stick means you can beat other less important people up.
Having a staff is a sign of authority.
So Tutankhamun is a king.
One of my favourite objects from the tomb is a stick with an inscription that's been added saying, cut by the king's own hand.
Really?
So a flunky has added this, you know, the king's gone out hunting or whatever in the marshes and cut this down himself.
So these are signs of authority.
The iconography shows Tutankhamen as the king of the time.
There is no implication, really, that he needs to use a stick any more than any other king.
Yeah, there's no reason to suppose he didn't actually go off to active warfare in some kind of foray.
The presence of the sticks has been mapped onto perceived evidence of decrepitude of the body, but this is highly subjective.
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