Valley of the Kings
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On the west bank of the Nile, across from the ancient city of Thebes, lies the Valley of the Kings - the final resting place of several Pharaohs and their families.
The valley is a 1,000 ft wide wadi [valley] that was utilised as a royal burial ground by three dynasties of the New Kingdom for over half a millennia. Made famous by Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun in 1922, the Valley of the Kings is home to the most celebrated archaeological finds in history.
For this third episode of our special miniseries on Tutankhamun, Tristan is joined by renowned egyptologist, broadcaster and author, Dr Chris Naunton to learn more about the incredible place where Tut and so many others entered the realm of the dead.
Edited by Aidan Lonergan.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the ancient, on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host, and in today's podcast |
| 0:16.7 | we'll be talking about one of the most astonishing locations in the whole of planet Earth, especially |
| 0:22.8 | when it comes to ancient history. We're going to the west bank of the River Nile near |
| 0:27.7 | the ancient city of Thieves, to a place that is called the Valley of the Kings. This was |
| 0:34.3 | where most famously abled, Tusson Carman's tomb was discovered some 100 years ago, but |
| 0:39.3 | the Valley of the Kings is home to so many more tombs than just Tusson Carman's. I think |
| 0:44.6 | there are more than 60, 70 or now, Tusson Carman's is 62. I might be wrong there, but it's |
| 0:50.2 | around that number. Basically, the point I want to get across in this intro is that there |
| 0:54.8 | are so many tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, and it's an extraordinary |
| 1:00.4 | location with so much incredible ancient Egyptian history. It's a very eerie, almost alien |
| 1:07.3 | lunar, like atmosphere, too. Going to a place like the Valley of the Kings is nothing quite |
| 1:12.4 | like it, the whole landscape a bit. In today's podcast, we're going to be doing a deep delve into |
| 1:17.7 | the story of the Valley of the Kings. We're not going to be focusing on the Valley of the Kings |
| 1:21.6 | in more recent history when all these various antiquarians and budding egetologists went to |
| 1:26.8 | excavate over the past couple of hundred years from Del Sony, Secarta, and so many others. |
| 1:32.7 | This is the ancients, so we're going to be focusing on the ancient history of the Valley of the |
| 1:37.2 | Kings. What was it used for by the ancient Egyptians? What do we know about the tombs themselves? |
| 1:42.8 | And also, what do we know about the figures buried in some of these tombs? Are there any tombs |
| 1:48.7 | where we're not exactly sure who the occupants were? Do we know if any of these relate to |
| 1:53.2 | Tuzankhaman and giving you a little hint there? Because it revolves around a name we mentioned |
| 1:56.7 | a couple of weeks back, the mysterious figure was Mancarae. We'll also hopefully talk a bit about |
| 2:02.0 | the Valley of the Queens and the Valley of the Monkeys. Yes, you heard me right, there's a |
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