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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...
...crop of curse stories was especially thick last month when Arthur Weigall, distinguished Egyptologist who had visited Luxor, died of an undisclosed cause (TIME, Jan. 15). Searching the rosters of expeditionists, tomb-visitors and their near & distant kin, Hearstpapers found that no less than 20 persons had shared the ancient penalty. Dr. Louis Dublin, master statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., examined the list of the dead, found that in 1923 their average expectancy of life was 20 years. Out of him was wormed the admission: "There is something uncanny about...
...Howard Carter, expedition leader and most conspicuous target for any curse, is quite alive at 61. Of 40 persons who saw either the inner tomb or the sarcophagus opened, only six are dead. They and their ages at death...
...There was no "curse." Mr. Winlock read every inscription in the tomb, found no threat. Only malediction ever discovered in any Pharaoh's tomb was in that of Amenhotep, threatening despoilers with poverty and ostracism, not death. The curse story started when Howard Carter's pet canary was swallowed by a snake. A poetic native remarked: "The serpent from the crown of the King has eaten the golden bird. Bad luck will follow." That was an inspiration to certain newshawks who were disgruntled because exclusive story rights for the Carnarvon expedition had been given to the London Times...
...possible that some noxious thing in the tomb air or on TutankhAmen's mummy may have infected at least one or two men? No. Samples of the air taken in vacuum containers were found clean and pure. Howard Carter passed a swab over the mummy at the first opportunity, and no germs were detected on the swab. An 1,800-year-old mummy brought to the U. S. and examined for a month by the Rockefeller Institute's famed Alexis Carrel was pronounced absolutely sterile...