What happened from there was a sensational story--not only was the tomb a revelation in archaeology, but also to the world, as the media helped spread the story of Tutankhamen's tomb. The find culminated Americans' lengthy love affair with Egypt, and as a result, found an eager audience there. In the excavators' home country, England, however, the ensuing commercialization of Tutankhamen displeased Carter's and Carnarvon's countrymen, who were still reeling from the impact of World War I. Americans, free from such burdens, and not averse to commercialization--at least at first--embraced the Tutankhamen find as if it were its own. They were not completely wrong in thinking this, since many of the excavators who rushed to Carter and Carnarvon's aid were indeed American. Many workers from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art helped catalogue the excavation. Even as American archaeologists helped at the site, American corespondents reported from it. The media, including movies and advertising, helped translate the find from a high culture event celebrated in scholarly circles to a popular sensation that affected the mass American culture. The influence Tutankhamen had filtered from the top down; while city newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times reported on the daily progress at the site, the only evidence it even existed in the Saturday Evening Post was Egypt-influenced advertisements published in the same months newspaper coverage reached its peak. The American fascination and involvement with Tutankhamen, informed by different forms of media and commercialism, drove Americans to compare the ancient Egyptian civilization to their own. The fad created by commercial interests involved Americans in a discourse about Egypt and America as well. More than just the latest in a line of "new national thrill[s]"⁽⁶⁾ as Frederick Lewis Allen claimed in his book about the 1920s, Only Yesterday, the discovery of Tutankhamen allowed Americans to examine their place in the world.