S7E3.5 - Overheard on Greeking Out - The Hole Where King Tut’s Heart Used to Be

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This is a kid-friendly episode of Overheard at Nat Geo! We encounter descriptions of mummification, a game show, lots of Black Goo, the aftermath of the Amarna period, and a missing heart! We dig into why ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun’s heart is missing from his tomb and what archaeologists have learned a century since the discovery of the young pharaoh’s tomb. One hundred years since the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, archaeologists are still puzzling over the mystery of why his heart is missing. In ancient Egyptian religion, the heart is thought to be the seat of intelligence and key to the afterlife–when a person dies, it’s weighed against a feather to determine where the soul goes. We’ll head into National Geographic Museum’s King Tut exhibit with archaeologist-in-residence Fred Hiebert to hear his take on what happened to Egypt’s boy king and hear from mummy expert Salima Ikram about how recent excavations of the tomb are helping scientists get closer to the answer. Oct 19th - Flip and Mozi’s Guide to How to Be an Earthling: https://wondery.com/shows/how-to-be-an-earthling/episode/9842-camel-102022/ Oct 19th - The Ten News: https://pod.link/1514325670/episode/f04fc6122254e7ddee9e3e9838ddeb8c Oct 20th - The Big Fib: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pharaohs/id1348469682?i=1000582474720 Oct 21st - How We Explore: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/archaeologist-nora-shawki/id1625920072?i=1000583474914 Oct 25th - Mystery Recipe: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4excJii06V9DTpigtjqaIG?si=5d78a444af44420b Oct 28th - Tumble: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4JXXcdLIpRLaoHsPBM4dYE?si=26JbWBfdSsCWJ2LEOPNNeQ Oct 31st - Girl Tales: https://girltalespodcast.com/ Nov 2nd - Forever Ago: https://www.brainson.org/collection/forever-ago-podcast

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0:00.0	When I heard the news of this year's big show with the National Geographic Museum, which
0:08.9	is on the first floor of headquarters, I couldn't wait to see it.
0:12.6	It was going to focus on the world's most famous pharaoh, King Tut, in honor of the hundredth
0:17.3	anniversary of the discovery of his tomb.
0:20.3	And I was going to get a guided tour with National Geographic archaeologists and residents,
0:24.8	Fred Hebert.
0:25.8	Oh my god, it's like a secret tomb door.
0:32.6	The exhibit is dark and mysterious, kind of like a maze with walls of hieroglyphics all
0:37.4	around.
0:39.0	As we move through, there are glimpses of some of the tomb's treasures and photographs
0:42.7	of its discovery.
0:46.0	We can hear voices whispering the spells the Egyptian priests used to protect the King's
0:50.5	journey to the afterlife.
0:53.0	This spell, 151 B, from the book of the dead, when Egyptologists see this inscription,
1:01.0	they know that they're dealing with a mortal who's going to become immortal.
1:05.2	It gives me goosebumps just looking at that.
1:10.0	I'm Amy Briggs, executive editor of National Geographic History Magazine, and you're listening
1:14.5	to Overheard, a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations we have at Natcheo and
1:19.1	follow them to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world.
1:23.3	This week, it's been 100 years since Howard Carter first peered into Tutankham's tomb,
1:28.3	so we're doing a deep dive into the life, death, and afterlife of the Boy King.
1:33.6	All that's coming up after the break.
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