Dr. Campbell Price
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Empire: World History · 367. Ancient Egypt: “Tut-mania” And Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Ep 6) · 10 Jun 2026
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Egyptian and other Arab-speaking, Arab-writing...
scholars were describing ancient Egypt.
But you're right, in 1922, there's the rise of what's called Farronism.
So this is the deliberate explicit pushing back against colonialism, British colonialism.
and trying to connect to the pharaonic past.
So it influences architecture, it influences discourse at the time in the 1920s into the 1930s.
Ultimately, it kind of goes out of fashion after then, but it's quite hot around the time of
of Tutankhamun's discovery.
No, no, no, no, you don't.
But so you have the prime minister, Saad Zaghloul, who is, you know, proud of pharaonic history and of Egypt's independence.
And I think there's something about Egypt being a self-contained
united country at the time, a kingdom.
Remember, there is a king of Egypt still in the 1920s.
Farouk, at this point?
Not yet Farouk.
He's the 1930s, but King Fouad I, his father.
I mean, Egypt is always the kind of in-between place, as Egyptian friends might say.
They're partly foot-to-foot in different camps.
But there is a real need to assert ownership of the Tutankhamun find.
Because remember, Howard Carter, his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, does a deal with the Times of London.
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