![]() ![]() Soon Sethos’s estranged wife Margaret is kidnapped, an aged retainer is waylaid, the family is followed in and out of the souks and Carter and Carnarvon cut them dead at every opportunity. Or maybe the Emerson woes have been caused by his brother Sethos, late of the British Secret Service, who attracts trouble the way the Nile attracts flies. The tomb’s curse seems to be dogging the Emerson household, maybe because Emerson, his parasol-wielding wife Amelia Peabody, son Ramses, daughter-in-law Nefret, grandkiddies and assorted hangers-on have stealthily entered the tomb at night for a quick peek. ![]() It’s Howard Carter, subsidized by Lord Carnarvon, who gets the first glimpse of the royal burial chamber. ![]() By 1922, almost every Egyptologist despairs of finding another royal tomb-except for Radcliffe Emerson, who doesn’t have the rights to dig where he suspects Tutankhamen lies. ![]()
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