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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In the late 1800s was the mummified face of Ramesses II.
So he gains a totally unexpected popularity.
You know, the cover of an Iron Maiden album is inspired by Abu Simbel.
You know, things like that.
He speaks to...
He speaks to modernity in our experience of tyrants and autocrats and dictators because I don't imagine Ramses II presided over a democracy.
So there's something about his character we still are kind of seduced by, even though he was probably pretty autocratic.
He built so many statues.
He had so many battles.
He had so many children.
You know, we can't help but have this grudging respect.
And his name is everywhere on so many of the great monuments, whether it's the pyramids or Karnak or Abu Simbel.
If there's one name to learn, one cartouche to learn, it's Ramesses II, Usermatra, Setepenra.
If you learn those hieroglyphs, you will see them all over Egypt.
Indeed, because it was so... When he went there, I think he was amazed just at how common it was.
Yeah, and I think what really inspired that poem was a kind of a frenzy
surrounding the arrival in london of that colossal sculpture fragment you mentioned before the so-called younger memnon which is now in the british museum so yeah in 1816 it was moved by belzoni and eventually a couple of years later it arrived in london
And it wasn't an interest in Ramesses II, it was just in the size of the statue.
It's interesting Shelley talks about Ramesses, well Ozymandias, king of kings.
That is one of the names of the colossal statues that I said were worshipped.
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