Tutankhamun's Trumpet and the Long, Winding Past of Ancient Egypt: Interview with Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson
Tides of History
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
I love the idea of the trumpet as a kind of a sense for what we're missing. I think music is a universal human experience. It's something that we all listen to and it's there throughout our lives. So it's a point of connection with ancient Egypt, the idea that yeah, Chutam Kama was also surrounded by music but it's also a point of dislocation because we can't tell what that music was or what it sounded like. We've got the trumpet but we've no know what it was, what it's played, what tunes it played. If I can convey just a little bit of that then I hope I'll share with other people what makes
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