The Female Pharaoh
Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.7 • 13.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
From wife and sister of a Pharaoh, to regent to eventually Pharaoh in her own right, Hatshepsut is one of the most compelling figures of the ancient world, a woman who sought to preserve her legacy in real time by carving her accomplishments in stone.
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I-Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey. |
| 0:37.0 | Listener discretion advised. In 1922, Howard Carter had achieved what most archaeologists can only dream of. |
| 0:52.0 | After over two decades of methodically exploring and excavating Egypt's |
| 0:58.6 | valley of the Kings, a region in Thebes where pharaohs of ancient Egypt built their tombs, he made a discovery |
| 1:07.1 | that would change the field of archaeology forever. Carter happened upon a Pharaoh's tomb virtually untouched for millennia. |
| 1:18.0 | Pharaoh Tooten Common was relatively inconsequential as a ruler, but thousands of years later as King Tut, |
| 1:27.2 | he became the most famous ancient Egyptian Pharaoh of modern times, thanks to the fact that unlike the tombs the which meant it was filled with dazzling artifacts. |
| 1:43.9 | King Tut and Howard Carter both shot to stardom. |
| 1:49.8 | But 20 years before Carter's career defining discovery, back in his very first season in the Valley of the Kings, |
| 1:58.8 | Carter had actually come tantalizingly close to making another spectacular find. |
| 2:06.0 | Only three days into his expedition, while exploring the southeast wall of the basin, he discovered steps. |
| 2:15.0 | The stone staircase led to the tomb of Thutmos the fourth, |
| 2:19.8 | a Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. The tomb itself was almost entirely empty, having been |
| 2:26.7 | ransacked by ancient Tomb Raiders. But Carter didn't walk away completely |
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