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181 “In the summer of 1922” Charles Breasted, Pioneer, 328–329.
182 “He granted that perhaps even Ibid.
182 “It is well known” James Breasted to his wife, November 27, 1925, University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Director’s Office correspondence, 1925.
183 “laid before him” Charles Breasted, Pioneer, 328–329.
183 “Some later, off-season time Ibid.
184 In her thought-provoking Tutankhamen El Mahdy, Tutankhamen, 205.
186 “In this area” Charles Breasted, Pioneer, 328–329. 186 “Now, said Carter” Ibid.
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188 “Hardly had I arrived” Carter, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen, Introduction by John Romer, 49–55.
189 “Anything, literally anything” Ibid.
190 “At last have made” Ibid.
191 “Plunderers had entered it” Ibid.
191 “With trembling hands” Ibid.
EPILOGUE
193 “There were soldiers springing” Arthur Weigall for the Daily Mail, February [18?], 1923. The scene at the newly discovered tomb was similarly described in the Daily Telegraph, quoted in Hoving, The Untold Story, 153.
194 “strange rustling murmuring whispering sounds” James H. Breasted, “Some Experiences in the Tomb of Tetenkhamon” [microfilm: Z-6583 no. 13, Breasted, James Henry, 1865–1935] (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1923), Chicago University Alumni Pamphlets, no. 2.
198 The steward handed From the notes of Lee Keedick of Keedick’s Lecture Bureau, who accompanied Carter during his American speaking tour. Mr. Keedick’s son provided a copy to Hoving,
198 The Untold Story, 330. 198 “We found him repairing” Caton-Thompson, Mixed Memoirs, 148.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In 1979, DANIEL MEYERSON fell in love at first sight
with Egypt. For the last seven years he has been
haunting its tombs and ruins, then returning to
New York City to absorb what he has seen. He has
taught literature and writing at Bennington College,
New York University, and Columbia University.
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