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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

The Egyptian Room was dressed in hieroglyphics before King Tut's tomb made them fashionable. When Helen Eaton Jacoby worked with architects Rubush and Hunter on a grand ballroom addition to Indianapolis's Murat Shrine, she chose motifs copied from ancient palaces and tombs near Thebes - and while the room was under construction in November 1922, Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's tomb and made her design the height of style. The room opened on 15 December 1922, one of the earliest Egyptian Reviv...