How is Tutankhamun’s legacy shaped by colonialism?
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Tudan Common - Is There a Press in Mind?
With Tudan Common is there a sense that viewpoint is being shaped by Carter and the average of Tologists? It is. And it's being shaped with a press in mind because right from the beginning, especially in the first two years, that they're working there, is a reporter from the London Times. He saw it as a way to help offset the expenses that the excavation was going to cost him. But he and Carter were behaving with a really British imperial kind of attitude ... They misjudged the situation in Egypt.
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