Word: tutankhamen
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...great point of interest," Professor Chase said, "Is that in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen we see for the first time the funeral furniture of a royal Egyptian untouched and undisturbed. However", he continued, "the sort of objects usually placed in a tomb are striking rather than of deep significance, and observers are often led to undue praise because of the abundance of riches, rather than because of any deep artistic value in the finds. Although there is a possibility that the decipherment of the inscriptions found may reveal some long-desired historical records," stated Professor Chase, "the probability...
...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...
...Chicago Herald-Examiner quoted me as saying: 'I was the first wife of King Tutankhamen. I married him when I was only 16 years old, and died two years later.' My interest in reincarnation is of many years' standing...
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...