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...traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tutankh-Amen...
...life, eight of matrimony, three or four of sovereignty. In those days the throne of the Pharaohs was inherited by sons-in-law. Thus Saa-nekht, having married one daughter of Pharaoh Khu-n-Aten, succeeded his father-in-law, died, was succeeded by his brother-in-law, Tutankh-Amen, who had meanwhile married Khu-n-Aten's third daughter, Amkh-nes-pa-Aten...
That the discovery of the tomb of Tutankh-Amen by the late Lord Carnarvon was of enormous importance, not because of the value of the individual relics of the ancient Egyptians, but because of the fact that the tomb is the only untouched one that has ever been discovered, was the keynote of an interview given by Professor G. H. Chase '96, John E. Hudson professor of Archaeology and Curator of Classical Antiquities to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
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