Mummy Mia: King Tut’s Tomb

EPISODE 155 | Mummy Mia: King Tut's Tomb

Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series

Since its discovery in 1922, the tomb of King Tut has captivated people, with research simply leading to more questions? How did he die? Was he murdered? Was he really born in Arizona and later moved to Babylonia? And is there a curse?

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SECTIONS

1. 03:09 - The discovery, the Curse of the Pharaohs, the Toxic Tomb theory
2. 13:47 - The first autopsy (1925), the Boy King; mummies were not worth much; the second autopsy with X-rays (1968), was he murdered?; the third autopsy (2005) with CAT scans; accidental death?, walking canes, did he have a clubfoot?
3. 24:06 - A new investigation, new evidence, a new theory
4. 30:44 - Hidden chambers in the tomb, possibly Nefertiti, underground scans
5. 36:01 - The mass appeal of historical treasures, Deir el-Medina - the lost village of the artisans and the Great Pit
6. 43:25 - The Egyptians and the West have an uneasy history, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
7. 45:35 - Egypt is his obsession

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Episode 59 - Atlas Sank: Titanic Conspiracies 
• The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
• Prime Time novels
• Neil Laird on IMDb
• Lost Treasures of Egypt (2019-2025)

• Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Tomb (2022)

• Tut's Toxic Tomb (2022)

• Tut: A Century of Secrets (2022)
• Tut's Lost City Revealed (2022)
• Valley of the Queens (2021)
• Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs (2021)
• Lost Tombs of the Pyramids (2020)

• Cleopatra: Sex, Lies and Secrets (2020) 

• Tut's Final Secrets (2020)

• Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs (2019)

• Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)

• Egypt: What Lies Beneath (2011)
• National Geographic: King Tut's Final Secrets (2005)
• Into the Great Pyramid (2002)
• Saving the Sphinx (1998)

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