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Up The Nile With A Child: What the Sphinx had to say…

Artemis Pittas and Rafael Guzman take a trip through time and space on a boat.

“Tutankamun was nothing! Nothing! What did he do? Nothing!” The guide in the Archaeological Museum of Cairo was passionate and angry. An elderly American tourist couple looked genuinely saddened. It’s not what you expect to hear when you’ve come all the way to Egypt inspired by the ‘Tutankamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs’ exhibition currently touring the world. The guide was merciless: “He didn’t fight any wars, he didn’t build any temples, he was a boy when he became Pharaoh, and he died young. People think he was the most important Pharaoh because of lucky Mr Carter, but he wasn’t.

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