Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
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Um,
Yeah, and there are ritual religious reasons you might want to have that material in your tomb.
But more interesting than an interpretation of toys is the fact that
There are objects which were used by a child, so child-sized sandals or child-sized furniture, which must be because, if you believe the king is a living God, anything which comes into contact with his body is by association sacred, so it has to be kept sacred.
So if you imagine Ramesses II lived till his 90s, his tomb is massive, partly because he needed to have all of his wardrobe kept.
And there's also another sense in which if a magician, we know this happened, if an ill-intentioned magician got a hold of one of the king's personal possessions, they could...
essentially do black magic on him.
So keeping all of that material together...
In the tomb was a way of keeping the king safe for eternity.
So I don't think there's any definitive evidence of there being toys.
There are games that he used as a young man.
There are musical instruments.
There are weapons.
There's a writing kit with one of his sister's names on, which is quite charming.
Back to the idea of female literacy.
Clearly that was...
something that was present in the royal family at least.
There are little insights into life, but most of the material in the tomb is about the transformation of Tutankhamun into a god rather than sentimental stuff about his life.
Yes, this is a sad but probably not uncommon fact of life in the ancient world.
Although those two stillborn children are not named, which is interesting in itself, they are given very careful treatment.
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