TUTANKHAMEN’S REVENGE.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 2

TUTANKHAMEN’S REVENGE.

VICTIMS OF THE CURSE. The death in Egypt of M. Georges Benedite, director of Egyptian antiquities at Louvre Museum, has served to revive discussion concerning the curse which many people believe rests on all who disturb the long rest of the arcit nt Pharaohs. Dr. Mardus, a distinguished Orientalist and translator of the ‘‘Thousand and One Nights, ” declares in an interview published in “La Libcrtc ’’ that he regards M. Benedite as the tenth victim of Tu anlihamen. “The death of Benedite did not surprise me at all,” he says. “There occurred at the same timS the death of another Egyptologist, M. Casanova, of the College de France. Both Tiese men had taken part in the excavations in the Valley of Kings. Since Tutankhamen ’s tomb was opened there has been a succession of dramatic events which I had foreseen, and announced a month in advance in the ‘Matin.’ I am convinced that the Egyp ians for 7000 years possessed the secret of surrounding their mummies with some dvn a re»c f o rce of wh ieh w c have the faintest idea. Remember the Bible story of the ark which the Hebrews carried with them on their flight frera EgypL This ark, which was, in fact, tnkon from the temple of the god Amen, killed hundreds of priests and .Levites who dared to aotv-oach it too rloselv. 1 must certainly have contained some concentrated force which is unknown to cur dav. ”