Had the tradition of laying down a red carpet for important people come into existence by that period!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Position:Home>History> I was just watching a Western movie where one of the cowboys said "don'Question: I was just watching a Western movie where one of the cowboys said "don't lay down the red carpet for them"!.!.!. Had the tradition of laying down a red carpet for important people come into existence by that period!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: !. The earliest known reference to walking a red carpet in literature is in the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, written in 458 BC!. When the title character returns from Troy, he is greeted by his vengeful wife Clytemnestra who offers him a red path to walk upon!. The earliest modern use of the "red carpet treatment" as part of ceremony was in 1902, when the New York Central Railroad used plush crimson carpets to direct people as they boarded their 20th Century Limited passenger trainWww@QuestionHome@Com yes a long time before that, originally done for Chinese emporers wherever they walked they tried to have the red carpet or lotus blossom there!.Www@QuestionHome@Com yep, Red carpets where used by European royalty hundreds of years before!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |