"Thromyris" published June 19, 1938 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Thomyris was the Queen of the Massagetae, a strange tribe that inhabited the region south of the river Jaxartes in Asia. She lived more than five centuries before the birth of Christ, on the west slope of the Tian Shan, or “Celestial Mountains” that divide China and Russia. Her people were said to eat their aged relatives. They were also fabulously rich, and preferred to use gold instead of iron for all their needs.
In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,” as he was billed on the covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Sunday magazine. The contract lasted 30 years and Dulac painted 107 watercolors for thirteen different series until his last Arabian Nights in 1951.
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Photo credit: © Albert Seligman / Alamy / Afripics
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