366. Ancient Egypt: Tutankhamun The Boy King (Ep 5)
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He is the most famous pharaoh who ever lived. His face, that serene golden mask with its striped headdress, is one of the supreme images of the ancient world, recognized on every continent. Millions of people have cooed for hours to stand before the original in Cairo. And yet, in the Egypt of his own time, this man was a nobody, not even a man, a child, when he came to the throne, and dying in his teens, he won no great battles, built no great monuments, left no great inscriptions, so
Who exactly was Tutan Carmoon? Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnim. And me, William DeRimple. And our guest today is the curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Magister Museum, author of Brief Histories, Ancient Egypt, of ancient Egypt and 50 discoveries, and of the magnificent golden mummies of Egypt. Dr.
Campbell Price, take a bow. Hello again. Hi. Hello again. Hello again.
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