King Tut's Tomb color-green Beatlemania took hold of America

Beatlemania took hold of America in February 1964 and a Times headline declared

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King Tut's Tomb color-green Beatlemania took hold of America"Tut Ankh Amen's Inner Tomb Is Opened, Revealing Undreamed of Splendors, Still Untouched After 3,400 Years." This headline stretched across three lines on the front page of the The New York Times on Feb. 17, 1923. "This has been, perhaps, the most extraordinary day in the whole history of Egyptian excavation. Whatever any one may have guessed or imagined of the secret of Tut Ankh Amen's tomb, they surely cannot have dreamed the truth as now revealed."