{"id":3356,"date":"2012-12-12T13:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/artanddesign\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:09:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T21:09:43","slug":"what-king-tut-would-have-worn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/artanddesign\/2012\/12\/12\/what-king-tut-would-have-worn\/","title":{"rendered":"What King Tut would have worn…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026 with jewelry design professor Steven Parker’s help of course. In the old days — the very old days — people shopped for pre-owned jewelry at their favorite Egyptian tomb. A lot of that loot survives today in the wings of major museums.<\/p>\n

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King Tut’s imagined bracelet. \u00a0Photos: John Bigelow Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But sometimes precious items go missing yet again during periods of political upheaval. Well, at least they could<\/em>. A bracelet of King Tut’s — a lesser known ninth bracelet — with a prescient clockwork mechanism was lost, then found, then lost again. Well, in truth it was never lost. But it was \u201cfound\u201d by Professor Steven Parker, whose fanciful creation of this ancient Egyptian-themed bracelet suggests what Tut might have worn.<\/p>\n

The famous archaeologist Kent P. Streaver (an anagram of Steven Parker) \u00a0writes in\u00a0metalsmith<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>magazine that when he\u00a0came into possession of the original bracelet, he called on its\u00a0 oracular powers. \u00a0The bracelet foretells that the famous archaeologist might not\u00a0fulfill\u00a0his \u00a0mission.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Parker’s rendition of 9th bracelet of King Tut’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sure enough, “a hand bandaged with dirty linens,” swipes the bracelet from the \u00a0archaeologist’s\u00a0“field of vision.” Alas, “the bracelet [is] gone!”<\/p>\n

“I can only hope that the bracelet will resurface someday,” concludes Streaver (setting us up for future adventures).<\/p>\n

To read the full story of the bracelet’s journey go to:\u00a0acmeclockworks.com<\/a>. \u00a0And expect more amazing discoveries from the good archaeologist\u2026 err\u2026 FIT professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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