The discovery of the royal tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings—untouched for 3,300 years and filled with eye-popping bling—became an instant media sensation. The young king, who had died at the age of 19, resurrected into a trend-setting superstar
Princess Marie José of Belgium dressed in lavish Nile style for a Tutankhamun ball in Brussels in 1926.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
High-end jewelers fashioned Egyptian-themed adornments, often using motifs from Tut’s own finery. Cartier, the French purveyor of luxury goods for modern royalty, turned out pieces that included a dazzling brooch in the form of a winged scarab, with diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, and onyx set in gold, and a clock of sparkling mother-of-pearl shaped like the gateway to an ancient Egyptian temple.
A brooch from 1935 took inspiration from the limestone statue of an ancient Egyptian woman named Nofret.The Egyptian discovery also inspired performers, writers, and artists, sometimes in outlandish ways. In the 1920s Magician Charles Joseph Carter, better known by his stage name"Carter the Great," promised to sweep “the secrets of the sphinx and marvels of the tomb of old King Tut to the modern world.” The Kiss of Pharaoh: The Love Story of Tut-Ankh-Amen.
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