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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There's some Egyptian stuff.
It has Egyptian stuff because Carter was a buyer for Carnarvon before the find of Tutankhamun.
That's not Tutankhamun stuff that you see there in the basement.
So this is not necessarily directly connected to the tomb, but for sure Carter does pocket a couple of things, which may end up outside of Egypt, but then subsequently are returned.
You wouldn't possibly be able to say.
Yes, that's a nice way to put it.
We'll leave it at that.
But it's important to say that that was, at the time, the expectation...
of any find, that was just how things were done.
But back to the political context, with the Egyptian government keen to assert its own authority, it was no question to Egyptian officials at the time that everything should stay as one find.
You know, the power of the Tutankhamun galleries in the Grand Egyptian Museum now is that they are everything together and you can see everything together from the tomb.
Yes, absolutely.
I think most important to mention, of course, is Egypt's complete independence in the 1950s.
And so Nasser is the president of Egypt.
And that ushers in a period of great ambition.
So the plan is pretty soon realised to raise the Aswan High Dam to generate energy.
And so going hand in hand with that, I think there is a notable opportunity
slump in interest in Tutankhamun.
There's a slump in interest in Egyptian archaeology in general, and certainly non-Egyptian archaeologists working in Egypt
don't dry up entirely, but aren't so significant, but in order to raise awareness and raise funds for the Aswan High Dam project and the removal, the movement if you like, of the temples that are threatened with flooding, so temples of Abu Simbel most famously, temple of Philae in the south of Egypt near Aswan, Tutankhamun has to go on tour.
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