Christina Riggs - Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
- THIS EVENT HAS EXPIRED
- Tickets
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Free - Drop-in - no ticket required
- Dates and times
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Sunday 22nd May 2022
1:15pm
- Age
- Adult, Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
This event will be hosted at Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, not Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as previously advertised.
A bold new history of the young
pharaoh who has as much to tell us about our world as his own.
When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obsession that endures to this day.
From pop culture and politics to tourism and
heritage, and from the Jazz Age to the climate crisis, it's impossible to
imagine the twentieth century without the discovery of Tutankhamun - yet so
much of the story remains untold. Here, for the first time, Christina Riggs
weaves compelling historical analysis with tales of lives touched by an
encounter with Tutankhamun, including her own. Treasured offers
a bold new history of the young pharaoh who has as much to tell us about our
world as his own.
This event will be chaired by Dr. Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, and author of Golden Mummies of Egypt.
c. Andy Crouch