In April 1939 the BBC broadcast Tutankhamun’s trumpets to millions of listeners, and months later the world was at war: the legend of the cursed trumpet was born. This documentary follows the sound itself: what the two trumpets from KV62 can physically play, what happened on the night of the broadcast, why the curse falls apart under scrutiny, and the ancient source, Plutarch, that records Egyptians refusing the trumpet because it sounded like the animal of Seth. It ends inside an Egyptian temple, with the chantresses, harps and sistra that took its place.
Chapters
- 0:00 The note
- 0:34 Two trumpets
- 3:35 The night it sang
- 7:23 The curse ledger
- 11:07 The cities that refused
- 14:30 The sound of order
- 18:12 Where the trumpets are now
Visuals in NeoKemet films are AI-assisted archaeological reconstructions, not photographs or footage. Narration is written for the channel and sources are listed in each video's YouTube description.
