Dr. Campbell Price

speaker
1,433 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 10 Jun

Dr. Campbell Price’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months
2 · Jun OctJan 26AprJulnow

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment
Empire: World History · 367. Ancient Egypt: “Tut-mania” And Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Ep 6) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast
Of course the king is represented in a number of other objects in a very almost kind of androgynous way because this is typical, as we said, of the Amarna revolution, the time Tutankhamun lived in.
His father is a religious revolutionary, Akhenaten, and he favours the worship of one god and in doing so he kind of splices male and female.
And so regardless of what the people looked like, we'll never really know for sure,
They are depicted with very long skulls and very androgynous faces.
And Tutankhamen's mask, which may have actually been reused from a mask made for Nefertiti...
some people believe, some Egyptologists believe, has pierced ears.
They were covered when Tutankhamun was found by Carter, but the fact that they have pierced ears in what survives and what's presented adds to this androgynous kind of appeal.
Tutankhamun is something for everyone.
He speaks to every generation, taste, background.
Absolutely.
This is so important to recognise.
After the invasion of Egypt in 1882, Cromer's been there for quite a while.
Egypt gets partial independence, you could say.
The Brits are quite keen to control access to the Suez Canal because of its linkage with South Asia.
in the broader world.
But yes, it's a moment of Egyptian national identity asserting political independence.
And so Tutankhamun arrives on the world scene at a very interesting and very sensitive time for Egyptian politics.
Yeah, I think there was always interest.
I mean, people often forget that a lot of scholarship before Europeans showed up was written in Arabic.
Good point.
Showing 41–60 of 1,433 · page 3 of 72 ← Previous Next →