VIRULENT POISON
COATS TUTANKHAMEN'S .TOMB, THEORY OF LORD CARNARVON'S pEATH* (RT CABLt—SSMS AS»OCUTIOK—OO#Y*IOHT.) (AUSTRALIA* A2TO if.3. CABLB A3JOCIAHOX) (Received June 18th, M.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 17, I)r. Frederick Cowloa, » Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, wlu> recently arrived from Egypt, lays thav Lord Carnarvon's deatfi has been traced directly to a poison coating upon Tutenkhamon's casket, ftnd tie, illness of a number'of the others engaged in th<? excavation of the tomb was also traced to the same source. The poison coating fen' the ' caskethad crumbled to, dust, hot evidently had not lost any oF its strength. He added that the qualifies of this poisou, like the goldfurniturein tha tomb, made by the ancient Egyptians, far surpassed anything produced by modern civilisation.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18722, 19 June 1926, Page 15
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122VIRULENT POISON Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18722, 19 June 1926, Page 15
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