Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
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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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I mean, I think there's always, there had always been an association between pharaonic Egypt and magic.
So it appears in scripture, Egyptian magicians.
And that persists because, you know, we're talking about pharaonic religion
appears to an outsider quite mysterious, quite arcane, quite, in some ways, quite threatening.
There's lots of things to do with the dead, focused on tombs and graves.
So all of this makes a really heady cocktail that speaks to the moment.
No, and there's an interesting play on the rule book because it said that if a tomb was found intact, certainly a royal tomb, that it should stay property of the state in its entirety.
But if a tomb is robbed...
in some way not intact or not a coherent group of objects, then it's subject to this system of Fein's division, this colonial system cooked up by an Englishman and a Frenchman, Flinders Petrie and Gaston Maspero.
So when Carter finds Tutankhamen, they find evidence and play up, deliberately play up,
the evidence that the tomb had been robbed.
So this seems to be done as a way of... They're trying to get it all out.
Yeah.
Well, getting at least some... Some of it out, yeah.
What Carter describes as recompense for Lord Carnarvon, because Lord Carnarvon has spent a lot of money on the excavation.
And this is also the justification for the Times deal to...
Because Carnarvon himself has spent a lot of cash in doing the business of archaeology.
It's not cheap.
No, and to be clear, it's just sort of not done for libel.
Highclere Castle doesn't have any actual Tutankhamun stuff, I don't believe, any of that.
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