Show ills 4 X K ja 4 atol we W 1 LUTA a fee 7 misfortune afortuna MI dogs dog the f of him who disturbs dt the sleep leep of A pharaoh ancient egyptian superstition by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ond Is dead lord Carn carnarvon ervon uncovered tho the tomb of tutankhamen tut ankh ankli amen pharaoh of U egypt agypt years ago wewt killed lord carnarvon was it tho the curso of tut ank ham on him who should disturb his sleep egypt verr generally general ly believes bel levei in a corso of tho th Phar nolis that wreaks dire vengeance upon those thase wl who I 1 io disturb their last sleep so all egypt Is now saying baying what corresponds to tile the amerlean american 1 I told you so and all egypt does not hesitate to speculate in public whether this yeng anco oance will bo be zatis fled by tile tho death of lord carnarvon or will bo be wreaked wrecked upon others modern medical science says that lord carnarvon died of pneumonia blood poisoning caused by aitho bito of an insect during tile tho excavation ca of tut ankli aeneas tomb ana noted physicians summoned to cairo did nil all that modern medical science lenco sc knows to save his life res lies ip was artificially maintained as long as possible and his heart action twos wag stimulated but modern medical science could not save him tutankhamen tut ankh amen pharaoh Ihara oh of egypt 00 50 n B 0 rooster master of the ancient caused his royal tomb to be cut alley janto into the living rock of tile the cliff of the of tho the rings kings near luxor lexor ile he caused chambers to bo be filled with golden jewel studded funerary furniture wath preserved food with his personal apparel and ornaments with his portrait mannikin mannik ln for the trying on of clothing with everything necessary for tile the use of his mummy when it should bo be lata laid away in the royal sarcophagus cop hagus bagus after only eight years of rule ho died tho the sacred college of embalmers was busy bover his mummy mummy tor 70 days his 1118 mummy was placed in the sarcophagus which stood in a separate chamber elaborately decorated and inscribed about tho the sarcophagus cop hagus were built case after case magnificently decorated until the chamber would hold tio no abre more the connections between tho the several chambers were then walled waited up and sealed the passage to the chambers was filled A wall was built across its outer end and sealed tho the stairway of twenty steps in the living livin grock rock to the outer world was filled A wall wa built at tho the top step and sealed this wall was covered with desert sand and hidden from tho the eye of man and tho the mummy of tut ankli amen pharone of egypt was left to lie in peace ind safety through the ages until uio trio shade of tutankhamen tut ankh amen aroen should return to assume mortal shape for tile remainder of ills his long journey through khe lq next world to the final state of bliss georgo georga edward Stun stanhope hope molyneux herbert fifth earl of Ca carnarvon marvon a nobleman of tho the british empire AD A D caused that hidden bidden and settled sealed outer entrance to be broken through ue he excavated the stairway he entered through the second sealed wall ile he forced ills his way through the pass ngo and into the outer chamber ile he stopped not nt at the sealed wall of r na ma conry into tho the chamber containing the royal catafalque no ile laid allen alien hands on that catafalque lie he even opened the doors of the outer ou ter case and then jie stopped because of reverence for abo dead pharaoh i not at all ile he lie he could not got f ul 11 V ar 17 4 A fly at Is n 0 A 0 IX A K yv A 0 7 TT T T farther into tho the catafalque without destroying ying it to take the catafalque carefully apart it would be necessary essay to demolish a wall of the chamber and that wall was waa covered with decorations and hieroglyphs which must be photographed and studied all of which would tako much time and anda there would bo be cooler weather for the work in the fall I 1 the ordinary everyday american 1 will naturally say why pick on carnarvon carter tho the american la Is tho the man tut should got get after certainly howard carter Is the man most responsible for tuo the opening of the tomb howard carter was riding a good american 11 hunch ti ile he believed he was wise to tho the approximate location of the hidden tomb of tut ankh amen ills his enthusiasm kept carnarvon bucked up as the englishman put it and carters hunch was the goods twice he dug in front of the large and elaborate tomb of jameses VI an unimportant lm octant king icing of the dynasty which all the tourists visit and twice he missed it by a few yards only the third time last fall ho he hit the exact spot then ho he cabled carnarvon Ca marvon who hastened to luxor lexor it was carter who supervised the excavation it was waa carter who cut through the walls to the catafalque chamber with ills his own hands why carters persistence in his hunt for tut adli amens tomb every egyptologist V gy prolog bist was keen to find this particular nicular tomb which was believed to vo the last of importance in the cr a the rings kings for tutankhamen tut ankh amen was the son in law and successor of alch himton n anton the famous Ille heretic king of trio alio ivin dynasty 1587 1878 1378 B 0 this heretic king renounced poly theism as conducted by the priests of amon albon declared for one god refused to make war abandoned ills hie capital at thebes built a now new capital city not far away at tol tel ol el adarna wrote hymns I 1 to aton his new god of love and comforter of them that weep and instructed his court artists to quit conventional egyptian art and to picture things as they appeared to the eye in short he was nu an allaround all around reformer who established nn an E egyptian carter found his rifled tomb in 1007 ills his city Is now being excavated tutankhamen tut ankh amen at first called himself tut ankh aton taid accepted the god of his father ln in law then he abandoned the new capital went back to thebes bli ebes restored the amon priests with added privileges and changed his nome name to tut anah amen truth to tell the egyptologists were keen to find his tomb largely in the hope of getting data about alch ti atop aton who la Is believed to ho he the first marl man in history to declare n ono god toll 1011 glon does tut ankh amens tomb contain 6 this much desired data nobody Y knows the iho contents have been examined aa mined only in part jart the hieroglyphics on tho the walls walla hanve not been read end the catafalque biag lias riot fiot been opened there may be other chambers incidentally incidentally the archaeological value of the objects examined to I 1 date Is estimated at 15 lord carnarvon thought the total might run to it Is the greatest archaeological find in all the years of egyptian ex plora tion true it Is that the ancient pharaohs Phora Phara oha did lots of cursing they posted many a curse on stone and tablet in public building and temple these curses however were mainly directed against those who should fall to carry out the pharaohs Phara will in respect to those buildings and temples As to their tombs the pharaohs Phara relied upon the care with which they were hidden and the skill with which entrance was blocked rather than upon curses upon possible disturbers disturb ers of their last sleep the use of poison in ancient egypt was an old story but there seems to bo be no record of tho the poisoning of funerary furniture nevertheless superstitious egypt fians express fear for the safety of tho the immediate family of the dead man his widow his son lord lom Port portchester chester who succeeds him hla bla countess Is an american woman formerly miss alsa catherine T wendell of now new york tits daughter lady evelyn herbert they also think it quite within the bill ties that all who participated in the opening of the catafalque chamber are in danger at tho the actual opening of tho the cham ber there were present several americans icons of note howard carter professor charles breasted of the university of chicago director winlock of the egyptian expedition expedit loii of ef the he metropolitan ro museum of art AM now york and curator lythgoe lord carnarvon of course was there and lady evelyn herbert among tho the others were sir william garstin and D dr r allan LT garddner british egyptologist bat at tho the public opening of the chamber three days later inter others present included the dowager sultona sultana malate malak of egypt morton howell american minister to egypt and his wife queen of tile tho belgians and prince leopold viscount and allenby same of the more superstitious ot of the egyptians assume that the curse will even foil fall upon all who have ra received from lord carnarvon gifts of objects from the tomb this hat la is said to include lady elizabeth dowes bowes lyon flauree of the duke of york lord carnarvon was born to in 1800 and succeeded his father in 1800 no lie was educated at cambridge and married in 1805 1893 almina wombwell Womb weH a ches and a goddaughter god daughter of cl f one of the ho he was very rich owned about 3 a acoca ere 3 and had h a d a racing stable at bi he vi avas as a collector of books and prints and a noted photographer |