Word: ankh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with reddish hair, probably inherited from foreign ancestors on her mother's side. She married her brother Kawa'ab, a dumpy, coarse man. He died. She married another brother, Radedef. He died. For her third husband she took Ankh-ha-ef, a nobleman outside the family. By Kawa'ab she bore Meresankh III, who grew up to be a small, black-haired woman. Hetep-Heres II also outlived and buried her daughter. It was Meresankh Ill's tomb that Dr. Reisner's party recently discovered. Pictures...
...thus irate was Mr. Eastman. He had shipped virtually all his baggage by another train, and had remained at Luxor for an extra day, to be shown over the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen by famed Egyptologist James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago. With a contented smile, Mr. Eastman remarked that his unburned luggage contains a fine specimen of the nearly extinct white rhinoceros which he shot in the upper Nile region by special permission of the Egyptian Government...
...Digger H. H. Von der Osten of the University of Chicago returned last autumn from the Hittite cities of Asia Minor with a manuscript which seemed to show that Queen Ankh-nes-Amen, after King Tut's death, wrote and asked a Hittite king if he had a marriageable son. tDr. Breasted is said to have read and translated every old Egyptian inscription ever discovered...
...Jeweled Tree. Before Pogany's sets, an Egyptian fantasy unrolled itself out of Tut-Ankh-Amen vestments. Once upon a time Prince Rames sallied forth to possess himself of the fruit of the tree. And did. Authentic folklore it is, with talking alligators -scholarly, picturesque, but apparently not the thing to engross an audience...
After heaving a sigh of relief, Tut-Ankh-Amen can utter whatever is the Egyptian equivalent for "Thank heaven that's over!" and prepare to expostulate personally with the archaeologists who have been disturbing his rest for two years. There has been singularly little excitement at the news that he is finally to see the light of day. When his tomb was first discovered, front page stories ran riot. Feminine accessories at once took on an Egyptian character which might have made an ancient Egyptian ill but was good enough to satisfy the public. Vaudeville actors and professional funny...