28Merton, op. cit. Merton incorrectly states that his death occurred at 2.30 a.m.
29Ibid.
30Ibid.
31Daily Express, 6 April 1923, p. 1.
32This appears to have been Algernon Maudslay (1873–1948), a public servant, although the authors have been unable to verify this fact.
33Gardiner, pp. 39–40.
34Reeves, p. 62.
35Hoving, p. 221.
36Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Howard Carter, December 1922 — January 1923, source unknown, quoted in Hoving, p. 153.
37Weigall, Tutankhamen And Other Essays, p. 96.
38Ibid., p. 89.
ЧАСТЬ ВТОРАЯ. ПРОКЛЯТИЕ
ГЛАВА ДЕВЯТАЯ. ПРОКЛЯТИЕ КАРНАРВОНА
1Brackman, The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen, p. 114.
2From a conversation between Anthony Leadbetter, a surviving godson of Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, and the authors on 3 August 2001.
3Carnarvon, Ermin Tales: More Memoirs of the Earl of Carnarvon, 1980, p. 16.
4Ibid.
5Ibid.
6Ibid.
7Ibid.
8Ibid.
9Ibid.
10From a conversation between Anthony Leadbetter and the authors on 3 August 2001.
11'Cheiro (Hamon), Confessions: memoirs of a modem seer, 1932, р. 38; «Cheiro» (Hamon), Real Life Stories: A Collection of Sensational Personal Experiences, 1934, p. 29.
12'Cheiro» (Hamon), 1932, Mark Twain, p. 168; Sarah Bernhardt, p. 147; Austin Chamberlain, pp. 123—4; Oscar Wilde, p. 152; Mata Hari, pp. 248-57.
13Ibid., p. 132.
14Ibid., pp. 97—100.
15Ibid., pp. 108—9.
16Ibid., p. 113–16.
17Ibid., p. 39–42.
18Ibid., p. 62.
19Ibid., p. 66.
20Ibid., p. 68.
21Wynne, Behind the Mask of Tutankhamen, p. 51.
22'Cheiro» (Hamon), 1932, pp. 135—44.
23Ibid., pp. 142, 144.
24'Cheiro» (Hamon), 1934, p. 45.
25Ibid., pp. 19–26, 35–47. See also Nelson, Out of the Silence, pp. 31—2.
26'Cheiro» (Hamon), 1934, p. 45.
27Ibid, p. 46.
28Ibid., p. 47.
29Ibid.
30Carnarvon, No Regrets: Memoirs of the Earl of Carnarvon, 1976, p. 120.
31Lee…the grand piano came by camel: Arthur С Mace, the neglected Egyptologist, p. 111.
32Carter, The Tomb ofTut.ankh.Amen, II, p. xxv.
33Ibid.
34'Lord Carnarvon's last hours: sudden failure of hotel lights», Daily Express, 6 April 1923, p. 1.
35Rapp, unpublished memoirs (GB165 — 0234), Private Papers Collection, Middle East Centre, Oxford.
36Weigall, Tutankhamen And Other Essays, p. 137.
37Ibid, pp. 137-8.
38Wynne, p. 95.
39Ibid., pp. 95—6.
40Ibid., p. 96.
41Ibid., p. 96.
42Ibid.
43Ibid.
44Ibid., p. 103.
45Ibid.
46Ibid., p. 104.
47Ibid.
48Ibid.
49Carnarvon, 1976, pp. 120—2.
50See Coats and Bell, Marie Corelli: The Writer & the Woman.
51Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun, p. 62 and Mahdy, Tutankhamun: The Life and Death of a Boy King, p. 129.
52Keys, «Curse (& Revenge) of the Mummy Invented by Victorian Writers», The Independent, 31 December 2000.
53Ibid.
54LMA (Louisa May Alcott), «Lost in a Pyramid» The New World, vol. 1, no. 1, 1869, p, 8. Periodicals collection, Library of Congress, Washington DC, Cat. No. AP2 N6273. See also Montserrat, «Louisa May Alcott and the Mummy's Curse», KMT 9:2 (Summer 1998), pp. 70—5.
55See Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars. By far the best film to be based on Stoker's book is The Awakening (1980), starring Charlton Heston.
56A letter from Herbert E Winlock, assistant curator of Egyptology at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, to its director Edward Robinson, 28 March 1923, quoted in Hoving, Tutankhamun — The Untold Story, p. 82. See also James, Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun, p. 218, who quotes the first paragraph.
57Vandenberg, The Forgotten Pharaoh: The discovery of Tutankhamun, p. 158.
58Ibid.
59Weigall, pp. 137-8.
60Wynne, p. 200.
ГЛАВА ДЕСЯТАЯ. СМЕРТНЫЙ ПРИГОВОР
1Carnarvon, No Regrets: Memoirs of the Earl of Carnarvon, p. 124.
2Ibid.
3Ibid.
4'Lord Carnarvon's last hours: sudden failure of hotel lights», Daily Express, 6 April 1923, p. 1.
5Winstone, Howard Carter and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, p. 189.
6Daily Express, 6 April 1923, p. 1.
7For instance, see Vandenberg, The Forgotten Pharaoh: The Discovery of Tutankhamun, 1978, p. 160.
8For instance, see Carnarvon, p. 126; Wynne, Behind the Mask of Tutankhamun, p. 134.
9Daily Express, 6 April 1923, p. 1.
10For those readers who possess a copy of Nicholas Reeves's superb book The Complete Tutankhamun, a photograph of the death certificate (currently on display at High-clere Castle) appears in a plate on Page 63, and the time of death is clearly visible.
11Mahdy, Tutankhamun: The Life and Death of a Boy King, p. 130.
12Vandenberg, 1978, p. 161.
13Ibid.
14Carnarvon, p. 127.
15Ibid.
16'Egyptian collectors in a panic: Sudden rush to hand over their treasures to museums: Groundless fears», Daily Express, 7 April 1923, p. 1.
17Ibid.
18Ibid.
19Brackman, p. 113.
20Ibid.
21Ibid., p. 114.
22Hoving, Tutankhamun — The Untold Story, p. 227.
23Ibid.
24Ibid.
25Vandenberg, The Curse of the Pharaohs, 1973, p. 19-
25Ibid.
27Ibid.
28A letter from Herbert E Winlock, assistant curator of Egyptology at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, to its director Edward Robinson, 28 March 1923, quoted in Hoving, Tutankhamun — The Untold Story, p. 82. See also James, Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun, p. 218, who quotes the first paragraph.
29Carter, The Tomb of Tut.ankhAmen, II, p. xxv.
30See Lucas, «The Chemistry of the Tomb, in Carter, II, pp. 162-88.
31Ibid., -II, p. 165.
32Ibid., II, pp. 165-6.
33Ibid., II, p. 166.
34Vandenberg, 1973, p. 157.
35Ibid.
36Ibid.
37NBC television report, no screening date, c. 1990s.
38Hoving, p. 221.
ГЛАВА ОДИННАДЦАТАЯ. НАЛИЧИЕ ЯДА
1Quoted in Brackman, The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen, p. 114.
2Morton, «Tragedy of Lord Carnarvon», Daily Express, 6 April 1923, p. 4.
3A number of Internet news sites posted articles on the discovery. For example see: http://www.egyptvoyager.com/ drhawass_findingthetomb_2.htm.
4Posted on various Internet news sites. For example see: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/egyptmayor000523.html,
5Email from Michael Carmichael to Andrew Collins, dated 11 January 2002.
6Ibid.
7Letter from Arthur С. Mace to his wife Winifred, dated 4 March 1923, quoted in Lee…the grand piano came by camel: Arthur С Mace, the neglected Egyptologist, p. 109.
8Letter from Arthur С Mace to his wife Winifred, dated 4 March 1923, quoted in James, Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun, p. 253.
9Letter from Arthur С Mace to Albert Lythgoe, dated 14 January 1927, from the Mace file at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, quoted in Lee, p. 138.
10Ibid.
11Ibid, pp. 139-40.
12Letter from Arthur С Mace to Albert Lythgoe, dated 14 January 1927, from the Mace file at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,quoted in ibid., p. 140.
13Letter from Arthur С Mace to Albert Lythgoe, dated 7 August 1927, from the Mace file at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, quoted in ibid.
14Ibid.
15Chris Ogilvie-Herald spoke at length with Christopher С Lee, the curator of the Paisley Museum in Scotland, during July 2001, who was unable to elaborate any further on the cause of Mace's arsenic poisoning.
16Email from Dorothy Arnold to Andrew Collins, dated
12 March 2002.
17Pearce, «Bangladesh's arsenic poisoning — who is to blame?» UNESCO Courier, January 2001.
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