Greetings, everybody. Welcome to Dan's Snow's History Up. 2022 is treating you well so far.

I'm having a great old time. I'm dragging my kids around the new forest. We are digging up.

While we're not digging up anything else, you can have a license. So incorrect. Freudian slip.

Miss spoke there. A miss spoke. We are looking at root plates when a tree falls over in the forest near me.

The great new forest. It's called new because William McConcker turned it into a forest a thousand years ago.

If you're listening abroad, that is what passes for new stuff here in the UK.

When trees fall over, they rip up great sods of earth on their root plates. And in those great masses of earth,

you can find things like Roman, pottery, or even stone age, nappings, flint chippings. It's wonderful.

We're out doing that. It got dark. We had to find our way back with torches. It was a big adventure.

I gotta say, I'm toughening up my kids for a lifetime of hunting down history. They're gonna love it.

In this episode of Dance Know's History, I'm repeating an old classic from 2019. I talked to Dr. Taric

Alawati. He took me around treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, an exhibition at the Sarchi Gallery in London.

It's commemorating the hundreds anniversary of discovery of Tutankhamens II, which was in 1922.

So it felt like at the start of this year, let's revisit Tutankham.

Howard Carter, more importantly, the young Egyptian boy working with Howard Carter's

activation team found the top step of a staircase leading down in the hillside of the valley of the

kings in late 1922. It turned out to be Tutankhamens. Tomb, of course, two years later on,

and generally the third. So today, in 1924, so 98 years ago, today, two years after Howard Carter

had opened up that tomb, they uncovered the greatest treasure. They opened the stone sarcophagus,

contained the solid gold coffin that holds the mummy of Tutankham. So today is also a big

anniversary, and we thought we'd bring you back this classic conversation from the archive

for you all to enjoy. It was actually recorded in the museum, as you can hear. There's all sorts of

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