Tomb raiders: How Egypt’s treasures ended up all over the world

Forever Ago

02-11-2022 • 34 mins

There’s stuff from ancient Egypt in museums all over the world, from jewelry and statues to mummified bodies. But it turns out a lot of that stuff was stolen.


Joy and co-host Hania learn how Europeans took control of so many important artifacts from ancient Egypt. Plus, they teach a video game character about the disturbing history of unwrapping parties, where Victorian people in the 1800s would unwrap mummified bodies in front of a crowd of people.


On First Things First we try to find out which came earliest in history: traces of cheese, written language or evidence of juggling!



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