'THE “CURSE” OF PHARAOH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 19

'THE “CURSE” OF PHARAOH.

Mr Howard Carter, the excavator of Tutankhamen’s tomb, recently expressed emphatic views about the much-talked-of “ curse ” which decrees that “ Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of a Pharoah.” “All sane people should dismiss such inventions with contempt so far as the living are concerned,” ho said. “Curses of this nature have no place in the Egyptian ritual.” Lord Westbury, who jumped to death from a window of his flat in St. James’s Court, London, did not believe in the curse, the Sunday Chronicle learned. In his flat his most cherished possessions were relics from the tomb of Tutankhamen. They had been brought to London by his son and heir, the Hon. Richard Bpthell, who helped Mr Howard Carter in the excavations at Luxor Mr Richard Bethel! died suddenly last November but Lord Westbury had no dread of keeping in his house these relics. “ These things were kept by Lord Wostbury for love of his son,” said Mr Guy Bethell, a cousin. 4.1 “ V )r< l Westbury did not believe, and xlio family do not believe, that any curse is t attached to them, and there is certainly no likelihood of the family disposing of them or sending them to a museum.