The mummy returns ; As a major exhibition of artefacts from Tutankhamun's tomb comes to London, the great-grandson of the man behind the original expedition talks about the curse that haunts his family

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: November 5, 2007| Author: NICK CURTIS | Copyright information

ON 26 November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter broke through the sealed wall of a miraculously undisturbed pharaonic tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings and was struck dumb for several minutes by the riches within.

"Can you see anything?" Carter's sponsor, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, eventually blurted, unable to bear the suspense. "Yes," Carter whispered.

"Wonderful things." In fact, the gilded couches and animal sculptures glinting in the antechamber represented a mere fract...

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