Tutankhamun's Trumpet and the Long, Winding Past of Ancient Egypt: Interview with Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson
Tides of History
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The Tomb of Tutankhamun
I was fascinated by the flint knives. I did not know that there were flint knives in the tomb, much less realized that they were like the ripple flaked knives that you see in the pre-dynastic period. So this would have been a sickly child who was not at all well and the fact that he died in his teens was probably not that unusual in ancient Egypt. And so for me it's that kind of touch of humanity that comes through Tutankhamun's too that I find most most affecting actually.
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