153d: The Tomb of Tutankhamun (Part 4)

Nov 9, 2021

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Curses and Controversies. From the moment they announced their discovery, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were faced with overwhelming attention. How they responded, and how they chose to approach the excavation, would have a major impact on public perception of the tomb. And, when events took a tragic turn, the media were happy to capitalise on the issue...

Episode Chapters:

Chapter 10: The Choices of Lord Carnarvon 00:05:10.
Chapter 11: Journey to the Crossroads 00:25:30
Chapter 12: Of Bricks and Lost Portraits 00:48:48

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The "curse" brick, with text from Book of the Dead, Chapter 151: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/263.html
Music Opening: "She Gypped Egypt on the Nile," midi rendition by SheetMusicSinger.com. Used with permission (audio editing: added vinyl crackling sound effects).
Music Interlude at 00:24:34: "Vintage Ragtime," purchased from Pond5.com.
Music Interlude at 00:48:05: "Tomb Song," by Nora Keyes, public domain via Freemusicarchive.com.
Outro music by Ancient Lyric http://www.bettinajoydeguzman.com/.
Sound interludes by Luke Chaos https://twitter.com/Luke_Chaos.
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Select Bibliography:

H. Beinlich and M. Saleh, Corpus der Hieroglyphischen Inschriften aus dem Grab des Tutanchamun (Oxford, 1989).
J. Černý, Hieratic Inscriptions from the Tomb of Tut’ankhamūn (Oxford, 1965).
Cox, ‘The Death of Lord Carnarvon’, The Lancet 361 (2003), 1994.
Z. Hawass, Discovering Tutankhamun: From Howard Carter to DNA (Cairo, 2013).
T. Hoving, Tutankhamun: The Untold Story (New York, 1978).
T. G. H. James, Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun (Tauris 2001 edn, New York, 1992).
M. R. Nelson, ‘The Mummy’s Curse: Historical Cohort Study’, BMJ 325 (2002), 1482.
N. Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun (Cairo, 1990).
N. Strudwick, Texts From the Pyramid Age (Atlanta, 2005).
E. Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt (New York, 2011).
The Griffith Institute, ‘Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation’, The Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, <http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/> accessed .
H. V. F. Winstone, Howard Carter and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun (London, 1991).
Websites: Rarenewspapers.com, valuable source for old clippings; Newspapers.com, source of various reportsl; Historyembalmed.org, a valuable summary of Tutankhamun’s tomb, media reports, and the Curse narratives.

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