Treasures of Ancient Egypt

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🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ramesses the Great, ego in the ancient world and Tutankhamun's sacred underwear. These are all covered in today's episode with Dr Campbell Price about the treasures that will be housed in the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, set to open later this year.

Dr Campbell Price is the Chair of Trustees for the Egypt Exploration Society, the UK’s leading charity supporting archaeological fieldwork and research in Egypt. He's also the curator of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History.
0:03.2	It flows to your listeners' podcasts.
0:04.6	Yesterday and today, first of all, well done,
0:06.6	Gold Star for you.
0:07.8	Consider yourself part of the team.
0:10.2	But you'll have heard me talking about King Tut.
0:12.2	Yesterday was an anniversary of the uncovering of King Tut's sarcophagus in 1924.
0:17.6	But on this episode, I want to talk about his new home.
0:19.6	For the first time ever, ever.
0:21.6	A massive display of Tutankham and objects
0:24.4	is going into a permanent gallery in Cairo.
0:27.8	It's very exciting. It's called the Grand Egyptian Museum.
0:30.4	It's a enormous museum in the desert.
0:32.4	It cost about a billion dollars. That's not an exaggeration.
0:35.4	And it is out of town so you no longer have to drive from the pyramid
0:38.6	into central Cairo through all the traffic,
0:40.6	magnificent objects from ancient Egypt.
0:43.0	You're going to love it.
0:44.2	It's an insulated concrete design
0:46.4	that overcomes the challenge of desert temperatures.
0:48.6	The roof often gets to 70 degrees centigrade apparently.
0:51.0	It's amazing.
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