POISON COATING
| ON TUTANKHAMEN CASKET i I I I CAUSED LORD CARNARVON'S DEATH. I AND ILLNESS OF OTHERS. (Received 9 a.m.) > NEW YORK, Juno 17 Dr. Frederick Cowles, of the Royal Geographical (Society, who recently arrived from Egypt, says that Lord Carnarvon's death had been traced directly to a poison coating .upon the Tutankhamen casket, ami the illness of a number of others engaged in excavation of the tomb had also been traced to the same source. ■ The poison coating on the casket had crumpled into dust, but evidently had not lost any of its strength Ho added that the qualities of this poison, like the gold furn/iture in the tomb made by ancient Egyptians,-far surpassed anything’ produced by modern civilisation.—Sun.
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Northern Advocate, 19 June 1926, Page 5
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