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...then wound himself up like a top in bandages which had been rotted in acid and roasted. It is a pity that these energetic preliminaries preceded a horror picture which contains only one genuinely hair-raising moment-when the words of a charm are accidentally spoken by a young archeologist and the 3,700-year-old corpse of an Egyptian priest comes to life in its tomb...
Famed was he for large-scale philanthropies: free medical service to indigent thousands, a hospital ship plying Japan's Inland Sea, a Better Farming Society. He was an ardent archeologist, a connoisseur of native art. For his services to journalism and public welfare, the Emperor made him a peer, gave him the Second Order of Merit...
...Arab warriors he was Aurans, Emir Dinamit, ''the World's Imp"; newspaper Warwicks dubbed him "the uncrowned King of Arabia"; some of his immediate superiors in the British Army called him every epithet in the calendar; now he answers only to his legally changed name of "Shaw." An archeologist of the first rank, he is now a mechanic and "the associate of menials"; once a colonel, he is now, by choice, a private; with a reputation that could still be cashed in for much fine gold, he is content with his army pittance of 60¢ a day. This Royal...
...Translator. Archeologist by trade and inclination, Lawrence (he has not yet written a book signed "Shaw") originally intended to be only an archeological author. One of the books which he has never found time to write was to prove that the dating of ancient pottery in England is all wrong. Though a brilliant, omnivorous student with an enormous and accurate memory, though he won Oxford's highest scholastic honor (a fellowship at All Souls), scholars would not call him a scholar. He wrote two-thirds of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his history of the Arab revolt, at odd moments during...
Around the walls were six heaps of what had once been six seated Caciques. In Professor Caso's plain archeologist's terms: "The long years had dealt severely with them. . . . Their skeletons had virtually disintegrated during the many decades since they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow...