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...exhibition last fortnight at Boston's big Museum of Fine Arts, this fragile limestone and plaster bust of Prince Ankh-haef of ancient Egypt had to be put in a special airconditioned showcase, because changes of humidity might crumble it. Every day Associate Curator Dows Dunham, of the Museum's Egyptian Department, checked temperature and humidity (see cut) to see how Ankh-haef was getting along. The ancient Egyptian bust was part of one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of portraiture ever assembled. Ranging from such 4,550-year-old items to Post-Impressionist Van Gogh, the exhibition...
James Henry Breasted, famed Orientalist of the University of Chicago, announced he was going back to work on King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb in March. Of the Sunday-supplement "Curse of the Pharaohs," which is supposed to kill off Egyptian tomb-snoopers and which was revived last fortnight by the death of famed British Egyptologist Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (TIME, Jan. 15), Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals...
...never felt better in his life after sleeping for two weeks in King Tut-Ankh-Amen's Tomb...
Died. Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall, 53, British Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of Akhnaton (famed liberal ruler and religion remodeler), novelist, biographer, member of the Tut-Ankh-Amen tomb-opening party in Luxor; after a long illness which his friends said was "mysterious"; in London. Revived were stories of the Pharaoh curse which the superstitious hold responsible for the deaths of 20 members of the Luxor party, and to which Weigall himself was supposed to have given some credence...
...Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with reddish hair, probably inherited from foreign ancestors on her mother's side. She married her brother Kawa'ab, a dumpy, coarse man. He died. She married another brother, Radedef. He died. For her third husband she took Ankh-ha-ef, a nobleman outside the family. By Kawa'ab she bore Meresankh III, who grew up to be a small, black-haired woman. Hetep-Heres II also outlived and buried her daughter. It was Meresankh Ill's tomb that Dr. Reisner's party recently discovered. Pictures...