They shared a common style that stood for liberation. With a Cleopatra-style bob haircut and shift dress, sipping cocktails and dancing the rhythm of a jazz band, the modern girl signalled defiance. She could attract a man or get by without one. She was also a commodity icon — selling lipstick, face powders, perfumes, and face creams. Many of them, like Nile Queen products manufactured by the Kashmir Chemical Company in Chicago, were marketed with an explicit Egyptian theme.
A prominent user of beauty products for black women produced by Madam CJ Walker, one of the most influential and well-known black US businesswomen, Baker used this new beauty culture to empower herself. She challenged racism by being fashionably modern. A painstaking autopsy revealed that King Tut was not a vulnerable old king, but a young man, aged between 17 and His body was unearthed at a time when society was still recovering from the impact of World War One.
Most of the war casualties were also entombed far from home, their bodies never returned. The discovery that Tutankhamun was a boy king and that his body carried multiple injuries, after his mummy was unwrapped in , captured the imagination of people mourning their war dead — or nursing injured loved ones. The bandaged, wounded young men who made it home from the front returned with some of the worst injuries ever seen, and were treated out of sight because weak male bodies represented weak empires.
Mummies who could rise from the dead were now immortalised by the new film industry. Louis, Missouri, to a long-established family.
His grandfather had founded Washington University in St. Louis, his father was a The film, which opened across the United States on November 21, After finding Rothstein bleeding profusely at the service entrance of the hotel, police followed his trail of blood back to a suite where a group of Born in , Owen was teaching English to children near Live TV.
This Day In History. History Vault. Middle East. Sign Up. Art, Literature, and Film History. At age 31, with no job and no money, Carter had to leave archaeology behind; he eked out a living by painting watercolors for tourists. A collector of racing cars and horses, Lord Carnarvon had been seriously injured in a car accident in Germany. Quickly growing bored with Cairo life, he took an interest in archaeology. He made inquiries, and Carter was recommended to him. In their partnership began.
When Carter and Carnarvon joined forces, the concession to dig in the valley was held by Theodore Davis. In a stash of embalming material in the valley, Davis found linen and other items bearing the name of Tutankhamun. Davis was certain that there was nothing more to be found, so he gave up the concession. Carter and Carnarvon quickly snapped it up. It was not until December that he was able to resume work and finally search for the resting place of the boy king.
Carter employed a systematic method he had developed during his many years in the field: a meticulous division of the site into a grid. For years Carter and his team scoured the rocky landscape, scarred with the trenches of previous digs. Discoveries were thin on the ground.
In a frustrated Carnarvon informed Carter he would not continue to finance the work. Carter pleaded with him to reconsider; moved by his passion, Carnarvon agreed to fund one last season.
On November 1, , Carter resumed digging in the Valley of the Kings. On November 4, they found the stairway that led to the unopened tomb of Tutankhamun.
By early the next year its contents had been logged and removed, leaving just two statues guarding the door to another area, which Carter had a hunch must be the burial chamber. That door was opened in February , and the room was found to be entirely taken up with three nested shrines. Deep inside these lay a series of gold sarcophagi, at the heart of which lay the mummy of King Tut wearing his golden funerary mask.
Abutting the burial chamber was another, smaller room, which became known as the Treasury. Carnarvon died a few months after the discovery, from an infected mosquito bite. But Carter would survive to complete his work. He continued with the task of inventorying the myriad contents of the tomb, completing his work in He spent his final years preparing the results for publication, and died in London in , age All rights reserved. History Magazine. Close Call: How Howard Carter Almost Missed King Tut's Tomb British backer Lord Carnarvon wanted to call off the search for the lost tomb of Tutankhamun after six fruitless years of searching, but Howard Carter convinced him to stick it out for one more season—resulting in the 20th century's most famous find.
Before becoming world famous, Tutankhamun rested in obscurity, undisturbed for thousands of years. This photograph captures the early moments after Howard Cartered opened the king's solid gold coffin. To the east of the Funerary Chamber, Carnarvon and Carter found a smaller room, later dubbed.
Egyptologist Maite Mascort has written extensively on her research at the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus.
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