🎧 2. Tutankhamun: The Discovery of a Lifetime
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧
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24m
2/4. Dan dives into Carter’s obsession with Tutankhamun and the trials and idiosyncrasies that made him the right man for the discovery. Dan visits the house Carter built where he conducted his search. There, architectural historian Nicholas Warner tells Dan about the many frustrating years of finding nothing...until water boy Hussein Abdel-Rassoul stumbled upon a square stone that looked like a step. They dug down and discovered a tomb door with the royal seal. No one could have imagined the treasure that lay inside...
This podcast was written and produced by Mariana Des Forges and mixed by Dougal Patmore
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