Word: tutankhamen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of a discussion on the Tutankhamen discoveries, Mr. Hardie, Labor member, asked whether the Government had any proof that Pharoah's body was really in the tomb. "No, Sir," replied Mr. MacNeill, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, "the Government is not aware that the body of his late Majesty is in the tomb!" Another wag solemnly inquired whether any request had come from Egyptians to dig among the tombs of British Kings and Queens in Westminster Abbey, and what reply would be made to it? A disgusted Under-Secretary merely glared...
...fashion cycle" may soon return to the point at which it started 3,000 years ago, if a recent announcement from the second international silk exposition is confirmed. One manufacturer has copyrighted the title "Tutankhamen silks" for a line of fabrics embroidered with Egyptian designs, and the suggestion of a new type of "Pharoahic styles" has been brought forward. Luxor, the burying ground of the sovereigns of ancient Egypt, may succeed Paris as the home of fashion...
This possibility has been strengthened by the discovery of what may be a fashion model in Tutankhamen's last resting place. This is the life-size wooden statue of a young woman, coated over with plaster, and painted with an enigmatic smile which can only be compared to that of the comparatively young and blooming Mona Lisa. This inhabitant of Egypt, past and present, may be a likeness of her imperial majesty, Queen Ankhsenpaten, for she has gazed at the dead prince with a never-failing smile for more than a hundred generations--proof enough of devotion. But some skeptics...
...their three thousand winters without signs of old age. They were found as they had been left, connecting links between the ages, to prove that ancestors are not far different from contemporaries. There will be nothing incongruous in the appearance of the modern debutante in a dress made of Tutankhamen silks. "Luxorian models are all the rage, and the Pharoahic skirt is destined to appear at Palm Beach and the Copley." And wives of the future may adopt the "Ankhsenpaten smile...
...more recent discoveries show the completeness of the equipment which was buried with the Egyptian monarchs. Food of all sorts carefully packed, chests bearing the stamp of Tutankhamen as a god and containing vessels supposedly used in religious rites; even royal underwear, the first evidences of such garments among the Pharoahs has been discovered...