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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So the news exclusively of the find, when it's discovered, is channeled through a British newspaper.
So if you're an Egyptian journalist or if you're an Egyptian consumer of news, that's quite an insult.
Yeah, there's anger, of course.
There's anger because there's anti-British sentiment anyway in Egypt at the time.
And, I mean, everything can be nuanced, of course.
I mean, Carter had lived and worked in Egypt for a long time, could speak Arabic, was good friends with lots of Egyptian people.
But his stated interest was in the scientific objectivity of the excavation, and he wanted to control access.
I mean, that's Carter's claim.
So he had his specialists who were mainly, but not exclusively, Europeans or Americans.
And so in...
doing the deal with the Times, he claims, he wanted to just simplify the news communication.
But that, of course, put a lot of, understandably, a lot of Egyptian noses out of joint.
I think this ebbs and flows, really.
Although in the 1920s and 30s, you have Faronism and this desire to connect with pharaonic past, to stand against European colonialism is strong.
Right.
That kind of pan-Arabism, that takes over into independence.
So full independence, of course, with the seizing of the Suez Canal.
liberation of the Suez Canal in the 1950s.
So there are reasons when that becomes more significant later on, but around the time of Tutankhamun, that's like a touch paper to connect more closely with pharaonic heritage.
Not to dismiss and ignore Islamic heritage,
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