Dr. Campbell Price
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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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Empire: World History · 367. Ancient Egypt: “Tut-mania” And Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Ep 6) · 10 Jun 2026
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but to be proud of a pharaonic history.
Well, so, I mean, this is probably... We know that tone in Campbell's voice when he says, well... So, this is something which...
Is, yeah, probably the most well-known aspect.
You know, the fine points of 18th Dynasty chronology are not so scintillating as, you know, Lord Carnarvon was bumped off by a pharaoh's curse.
And the dog howled.
I think there's something underlying throughout the excavation, and it's something, you know, in Carter's description, so...
Behind me, I've got a cardboard cutout of one of the so-called guardian statues.
So one thing which bubbles along...
under the more kind of headline-worthy news about the curse is a certain anxiety about the status of the tomb.
And so Howard Carter describes these two black-painted gilded statues of the king as guardian statues.
I've got a cardboard cutout of one of them in my office behind me.
And these are actually ritual representations of the king that may have been used during the king's lifetime, but which ended up in the tomb antechamber, so among the first things that Carter saw.
And he describes them as sentinels because they hold weapons, they seem quite menacing.
It almost kind of implies that Carter feels guilty for probing further into the tomb.
So there is this...
in a way, a kind of colonial guilt about the entering and the emptying of a pharaoh's tomb.
And that finds real expression in a narrative which is cooked up by people who feel kind of left out in the cold by the Times deal.
So the Times of London
reporting deal means that in order to generate, you know, copy for newspapers, journalists have to write about something.
And so this idea of, especially after Carnarvon's death, the supposition that it's a curse really kind of balloons.
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