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 although, as we'll discuss, there are major tours of geopolitical importance in the 1970s, actually in the early 60s, some material of Tutankhamun's goes around several venues in the United States, seen by Jackie Kennedy.
This is a big thing.
It's already a diplomatic move.
So it's ancient history.
Yeah, well, that's a great story, William.
Thank you for sharing.
I would love to have been one of those people.
You're barely out of short trousers.
But I know several noted Egyptologists who, like you, were children in the queue, and that inspired them to become Egyptologists.
It's worth saying about that show, that really iconic 1972 show, there were 50 objects, including the famous gold mask, selected to mark 50 years since the find.
So 1972, of course, was 50 years since 1922.
And then that really ushered in the literal blockbuster because that and other venues clocked up, well, at the BM, almost a million people.
In the United States, 8 million people, where people were queuing around the block.
So it bust the block.
So there's the origin of the phrase.
And one thing, as a curator, I'm often struck by in looking at the photos in the press around that time is the dramatic lighting.
So the rooms were dark.
The galleries were dark.
Objects were not given much in the way of contextual information, but they were spotlit.
And so they really loomed out of the darkness.
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