3. Tutankhamun: The Life of a Boy Pharaoh

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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3/4. How much do we know about Tutankhamun, his short life and even shorter reign? Dan unravels the complicated legacy of Tutankhamun's predecessor Akhenaten who changed the very fabric of Egyptian society, leaving his son Tutankhamun to change it back. In life, the boy pharaoh was plagued by health complications and died aged 18, leaving very little information about his life. Dan and Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price look to his tomb to see what it can tell us about his reign, death and funeral.

Listen to episode one - Tutankhamun: The Valley of the Kings.

Listen to episode two - Tutankhamun: The Discovery of a Lifetime.

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0:38.7	On November 1st, 1922, Howard Carter began his final search to find the missing tomb of Tutankham Kamu.
0:48.7	He'd been given one last chance by Lord Karnavan, who was ready to pull the plug after funding a fruitless,
0:56.7	costly five-year search.
1:05.7	November 4th, 1922. At about 10am I discovered beneath almost the first hut, attacked the first traces of the entrance of the tomb.
1:18.7	This comprised the first step of the northeast corner of the Sunken Staircase.
1:24.7	Quite a short time suffice to show that it was the beginning of a steep excavation cut in the bedrock,
1:32.7	about four metres below the entrance of Ramesses VI II.
1:38.7	5th of November 1922.
1:42.7	Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step,
1:47.7	which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.
1:56.7	Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb.
2:02.7	I examined this exposed portion of the sealed doorway and noticed that the only desiferable impressions of the seals were those of the well-known Royal Necropolis seal,
2:13.7	a noobis symbolising a king.
2:19.7	I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years.
2:28.7	I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other Royal tombs in the valley.
2:36.7	Could it be the tomb of a noble buried there by royal consent?
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