Проклятие Тутанхамона

²⁴Letter from Alan Gardiner to his wife, dated 1 April

1923, quoted by Margaret Gardiner in A Scatter of Memoirs, pp. 107-8.

²⁵Merton, op. cit.

²⁶Ibid.

²⁷Lord Carnarvon's last hours: sudden failure of hotel lights\ Daily Express, 6 April 1923, p. 1.

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³⁵Rapp, unpublished memoirs (GB165 — 0234), Private Papers Collection, Middle East Centre, Oxford.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.