Word: brome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...