King Tut Returns to Conquer America, Solve Museums' Financial Woes

The US has had two bouts of Egyptian mania in the past hundred years. First was in the early 1920s, when King Tutankhamen‘s tomb was discovered, leading to influence the art deco style. Later, it was the late 70s, which among other things resulted in perhaps Steve Martin‘s most famous song. So we can only sit and speculate as to what this third wave will bring, as the infamous King Tut exhibit returns to America (we’re purposefully skipping over the fact that it was also here in 2005 and 2006, because that doesn’t work into this narrative we’ve got cooking, or maybe it was just the warming up process).