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...full in the next Bulletin of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Meroe is in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, not very far from Khartum. It is over six hundred miles south of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, where the discovery of King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb was recently made...
...foreign imports were, however, only a small part of the objects placed in the tombs. As always throughout Ethiopia, the burial chambers of every tomb which we excavated had been plundered, and usually very completely plundered. The gold objects actually found by the expedition were therefore only those overlooked or dropped by the thieves, and were only a small proportion of those originally in the tombs...
Marie Corelli: " I wrote to The New York World implying that in my opinion Lord Carnarvon's illness is the result of an ancient curse laid upon those who desecrate the tomb of an Egyptian king...
Hornets are swarming to the mausoleum of Tut-ank-Amen in the Valley of the Kings-evidently attracted by some ingredient used in treating the objects taken from the tomb. Two physicians advanced upon a patient in Clinton, Iowa, to determine his blood pressure. He opened fire with two revolvers, wounded one doctor, shot himself. He then died...
...then no one has claimed that "It Is the Law" can approach "The Bat" or "The Thirteenth Chair" in cleverness and finesse. "Bulldog Drummond" is more in its line. Albert Woodruff, as the villain fills us with the same sort of creepy horror that the tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac...