Fascinating people, fascinating places.

G'd aye, and welcome to the Dan Mainwearing podcast.

This is where we talk to and about the famous and the infamous,

the celebrated and the obscure, the well-known and

the undiscovered, interviews, articles and discussions from around the globe. A hundred years ago a hitherto obscure an unrem Egyptian, became a household name.

Tooten-Karmen.

Who was he?

What treasures were found in his tomb?

And were those who excavated his grave really cursed? Find out in this episode.

It's believed Tewton Carmen was born in 1341 BC.

To add some historical context, by that time the major pyramids in Egypt were already ancient,

having been constructed more than a thousand years beforehand.

Contemporary to King Tut was the Minoan civilization, the demise of which some people believed

spawned the legend of Atlantis as popularized

some 800 years later. King Tut proceeded the time of Jesus by 13 centuries which is a gap equivalent to the end of the Dark Ages as relates to the 21st century.

Suffice to say, it was a long time ago, which means records are scarce.

Then as now, incoming rulers had a tendency to criticize their predecessors,

but the ancient Egyptians took this to a whole new level, sometimes

destroying statues, plaques and monuments in an attempt to obliterate the memory of a deceased Pharaoh.

And this is precisely what happened to Tooten-Karmen.

As five years after his death, the new Pharaoh,

Heremhip, decided to banish the memory of his immediate predecessors.

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