Word: tutankhamen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extras, for instance, have brown eyes, because the research department read somewhere that "there were no blue-eyed Egyptians in the 14th century B.C." Furthermore, the "5,000,000 objects" of Egyptian antiquity in the film were imported or reconstructed from the originals-including reasonable facsimiles of Tutankhamen's and Nefertiti's thrones...
...declared that the sarcophagus is certainly royal, and that it probably contains the golden mummy case of the Pharaoh Sanakht. If this proves to be so, it will be important indeed. Only a few unrobbed tombs of Pharaohs have been found, and the earliest of them, that of Tutankhamen, is 1,500 years later than the Third Dynasty...
Hotel in Chicago. He could do the then popular but now extinct King Tutankhamen shuffle without blundering a flick...
Akhnaton's reform died with him because the next pharaoh, Tutankhamen ("King Tut"), preferred flattery. The statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...
...over the exact location of Noah's cabin on the Ark. He comes down hard on such promotional notions as "miraculous cures" (highly profitable to the yellow press), and has fun with the thousands who earnestly believe that a curse lies upon those who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (Mystery-Writer Edgar Wallace once noted ominously "that the very day the tomb was opened a cobra ate the chief explorer's canary...