Tutankhamun
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Tutankhamun is one of the most famous names in ancient history. Known as the 'Boy King', he ascended the Egyptian throne at the age of 9 and ruled for just under a decade. In this time, there's evidence of his sporting activities, his religious restoration, and even his penchant for an ancient Egyptian board game. But is there more to the Boy King than his tomb tells us?
In this episode, Tristan is joined by Professor Joyce Tyldesley to launch our new November mini-series diving into all things Tutankhamun. Together they discuss what the available sources tell us about Tutankhamun's life, and help debunk some of the popular myths out there about King Tut.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the ancients on History Hit. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast was November, it's 2022. |
| 0:18.7 | This month is 100 years since the discovery of Tutankham in the Valley of the Kings, |
| 0:23.8 | one of the most significant, if not the most significant, archaeological discovery of all time. |
| 0:30.0 | We're going to be doing a small mini series, all about Tutankham, the discovery of his |
| 0:33.2 | tomb, his legacy, Valley of the Kings, so on and so forth, every Thursday this month, |
| 0:38.9 | Tut Thursday's, hashtag Tut Thursday's, there you go, and to kick it all off, we have |
| 0:44.3 | got the brilliant, the awesome Professor Joyce Tildsley back on the podcast. |
| 0:51.2 | Joyce, she works at the University of Manchester, I headed up to her office a few weeks ago, |
| 0:56.0 | when I was up in that part of the world, and Joyce, she's just absolutely brilliant. |
| 1:00.0 | Any of you have heard Joyce's voice before, she was part of our Rise of Clear, Patra, |
| 1:04.3 | Multicon, she used a podcast episode, she also explained all about Nefertiti last year, |
| 1:09.9 | and she's back now to talk through everything regarding the figure of Tutankham. |
| 1:15.4 | We're not talking about his tomb or the discovery of his tomb in today's episode, we're |
| 1:19.3 | focusing in on who Tutankham actually was. |
| 1:23.6 | What is the archaeology and the hieroglyphs? |
| 1:26.5 | What is this all revealed about who he was, about his life, about what he enjoyed doing, |
| 1:32.2 | about his reign, his whole reign, what do we know? |
| 1:36.2 | There is so much that we don't know, there are so many theories that still about several |
| 1:39.8 | parts of Tutankham in story, but who better to go to, to learn more about this figure, |
| 1:45.9 | than the brilliant speaker, than the wonderful professor Joyce Tilsley. |
| 1:49.9 | You're going to love this episode, it's a wonderful episode to kickstart our new Tut Thursday's |
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