A wave of "Tut mania" spread across Europe and America following the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. From the latest art deco designs and fashions to exotic picture palaces, everything was influenced by the "wonderful things" buried with the boy pharaoh 3,500 years before. Half-a-century later the world tours of the "Treasures of Tutankhamun" reintroduced these spectacular Egyptian antiquities into the west's visual bloodstream.