4. Tutankhamun: Inside the Tomb

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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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's imagination and still does to this day.

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

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

Listen to episode three - Tutankhamun: The Life of a Boy Pharaoh.

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0:37.7	On the 26th of November 1922, Howard Carter, Lord Carnavan, his daughter Lady Evelyn and their team,
0:45.7	descended the stone steps they've cleared at the bottom of the valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile.
0:50.7	They came up to the door, the royal seal of Pharaoh Tutankham-Karmoon carved into the stone. They forced a crack to peak inside.
1:00.7	In his journal, Howard Carter wrote,
1:03.7	It was some time before one could see. The hot air escaping caused the candle to flicker,
1:10.7	but as soon as one's eyes became accustomed to the glimmer of light, the interior of the chamber gradually loomed before one.
1:20.7	With its strange and one full medley of extra ordinary and beautiful objects heaped upon one another.
1:28.7	When Lord Carnavan said to me,
1:32.7	Can you see anything? I replied to him,
1:35.7	Yes, it is wonderful.
1:40.7	I then, with precaution, made the whole sufficiently large for both of us to see, we looked in.
1:49.7	Our sensations and astonishment are difficult to describe as the better light revealed to us the marvelous collection of treasures.
2:00.7	Two strange ebony black effigies of a king, gold sandal bearing staff and mace loomed out from the cloak of darkness.
2:10.7	We closed the hole, locked the wooden grill which had been placed upon the first doorway.
2:16.7	We mounted our donkeys and returned home, contemplating what we had seen.
2:32.7	They were the first souls to step foot in Tutankhamman's tomb for millennia.
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