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US president Herbert Hoover named his dog King Tut and Universal Pictures' original (and subsequently much remade) movie, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, was released in 1932. The Carreras Cigarette factory in Islington, with its black cat sculptures and Egyptian styling, was built in 1924, and the Egyptian Deco Hoover Building in Perivale in 1933. The touring Tutankhamun exhibitions of the Seventies revived the craze, with Steve Martin singing his song King Tut on Saturday Night Live. El Awady points out that the vast scope of the treasure buried with a minor king offers a boggling insight into what must have been lost to looting (or is yet to be found) in the tombs of the great pharaohs such as Khufu, Rameses II, Thutmose III or Queen Nefertiti. Egypt's climate allowed for greater preservation of organic material where other cultures left only stone remains.