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...believers in the curse of Pharaoh the Press once more reeled off the roll of alleged victims. First was Lord Carnarvon, sponsor of the expedition to Luxor. Shortly after the inner tomb was opened he was bitten by a mosquito, scratched the bite, died of infection. A Canadian university professor visited the tomb, died of sunstroke the next day. Two Roentgenologists, summoned to x-ray the mummy, died before they reached Egypt. Lord Carnarvon's halfbrother, the Hon. Mervyn Herbert, one of the first to enter the inner tomb, died, as did the Hon. Richard Westbury, wrote...
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...
...crescent into Egypt to the equally fertile Nile basin, a 3,500-mi. semicircle can be drawn from the Persian Gulf to the upper reaches of the Nile. It is this semicircle that Dr. Breasted has chosen for his field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos, lower down; Sakkara and Cairo, at the delta; in Asia Minor, Megiddo, on the Jordan; Calneh, at the Eastern tip of the Mediterranean. Leaving the crescent, an offshoot expedition has settled in Alishar, halfway between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Inland...
...Institute has been translating for nine years, reveal, says Dr. Breasted, "the dawn of conscience." In Sakkara man was learning to paint pictures, facsimiles of which Dr. Breasted considers good enough to hang in his new office. Architecture flourished in Thebes; Dr. Breasted has uncovered a royal palace. In Luxor he found records of the migration of the Etruscans to Italy-Europe's first immigrants. In Asia Minor the Assyrians had built their civilization, Sargon II had raised his great palace, put the two giant bulls to guard it; the Hebrews had made history, Solomon had left his stables...
Five honorary members were elected, including John Davison Rockefeller Jr. The citation: ". . . His active interest in architecture is incarnated in the restoration of the cathedral of Rheims, the chapel of the University of Chicago . . . the American building in Luxor and the restoration of the city of Williamsburg, Va.. a project unprecedented in its scope and cost and unlimited in its possibilities as an inspiration in good architecture, patriotism and citizenship. . . ." Honorary membership was also conferred on Professor William Archer Rutherford Goodwin (William & Mary), historian & archeologist who supervised the Williamsburg restoration. The Institute's Fine Arts Medal was bestowed...