4. Tutankhamun: Inside the Tomb
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Tutankhamun's Mummy Mask
By the time Carter finished clearing the tomb by 1932, there were more things happening in the world that maybe meant that Tutankhamun wasn't as important. I always say that if we'd found the tomb of another king intact or at least the burial part of the tomb intact,. I think they wouldn't have made so much of an impression. It shows this kind of ageless but young face looking out these kind of pair of lidless eyes looking out into eternity and striking that chord with people who had lost sons in first world war. So all of that added significance to the timing of the discovering in the 1920s. No other king at no other time could have made quite the impact
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