Dr. Campbell Price
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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.
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Yes, I think that's fair.
To be fair to Rameses II, who must have been quite a dynamic guy to give him his fair due.
I think, yeah, his successors had to deal with things which, yeah, totally unforeseen on his part.
I mean, he's the greatest in the sense that he had most time to tell us he was great.
Yeah, he's the loudest ruler.
He's the loudest.
Yeah.
I mean, if Hatshepsut had been a man and had ruled for 60 years, we would have no doubt about her, his greatness.
I mean, it's true though we do have evidence of the cult of Ramses II persisting in places like Abydos.
There is evidence of the worship of Ramses II in certain places.
And then his body, of course, survives.
He's buried in the Valley of the Kings.
The body is moved to the royal mummy cache in Deir el-Bakri, DB 320.
And then when that's discovered officially in 1881, that starts a whole new weird afterlife for Ramesses II.
where his body, it seems, is so well preserved, he's assumed to be the Pharaoh of the Exodus.
So we do have the actual body of Ramses.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He goes a bit mouldy in the 1970s and is sent to Paris for defungal treatment.
so having the face of this man so it's not just the statues of course the statues don't look anything like he would have done when he was alive and people have tried to extrapolate from his mummified body what he might have looked like we'll never really know just to be clear that's another hobby horse of mine but having the body and especially when it was unwrapped in the 1880s was shocking and surprising and thrilling
So in popular culture, you know, that's one of the most popular postcards you could buy.
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