Name: Pyramid Talk: King Tut's Curse and the “Truth” about Ancient Egypt
Start: 2025-02-07T18:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-02-07T19:30:00+10:00
Location: Corner of Grey and Melbourne Streets, South Bank, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4101

$Pyramid Talk: King Tut's Curse and the \u201cTruth\u201d about Ancient Egypt$

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Who owns the “truth” about the past? Today’s power struggle between scientific and sensational interpretations of ancient Egypt began with the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb a century ago. In recently rediscovered private letters, psychics and tabloid journalists challenged Howard Carter’s authority with dire warnings about the supernatural vengeance that awaited him. The invention of “King Tut’s Curse” reveals the eccentric personalities and toxic rivalries that gave birth to a legend.
About the presenter: Dr Jasmine Day, anthropologist and Egyptologist, is an expert on mummymania, mummy ethics and Egyptian Revival jewellery, and the author of The Mummy’s Curse: Mummymania in the English-speaking World. She appeared in TV’s Egypt’s Unexplained Files. Dr Day is President of The Ancient Egypt Society of Western Australia Inc.