🎧 4. Tutankhamun: Inside the Tomb
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit • 33m
4/4. Dan descends the very same stone steps into Tutankhamun's tomb that Carter did, 100 years earlier. From within the chamber, Dan and Egyptologist Alia Ismail give a sense of the awe Carter and Carnarvon would have felt, of the riches and sarcophagi that housed the mummy of Tutankhamun. Meanwhile, Dr Campbell Price gets into the obsession the discovery sparked- ‘tut-mania’- as the public bought all the rolls of film in Luxor and slept on camp-beds in the grounds of the winter Palace hotel, desperate to catch a glimpse of the treasures emerging from the tomb.
From the bustling Luxor souk, Dan reflects on why exactly the boy pharaoh captured the world and still does to this day.
This podcast was written and produced by Mariana Des Forges and mixed by Dougal Patmore
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