SPIRITS OF THE PHARAOHS
The large number of visitors to fcgypt and persons interested in Egyptian antiquities wHo believe in the malevolence of the spirits of the Pharaohs and their dead 'subjects is always a matter of astonishment to me in view of the fact that of all ancient peoples the Egyptians were the most kindly • and, to me, the most loveable." Thus writes Mr. Arthur Weigall in "Tutankhamen and Other Essays " The curses that were found in the Tombs were "simply to terrify the-would-be tomb-robbers." The scientific modern excavators, ''whose object is to rescue the dead from that' oblivion which the years have produced, might be expected to be' blessed rather than cursed, for what they do.'" And Mr. Weigall adds, in, a very interesting chapter on this fascinating subject : "It may be said in general no harm has come to those who have entered these ancient tombs with reverence, and with the sole aim of saving the dead from native pillage and their identity from the obliterating hand of time."-
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 17
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