Daughter of Egypt

Daughter of Egypt

Author: Marie Benedict Listening Length: 11h 26m

In the 1920s, archeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle made headlines around the world with the discovery of the treasure-filled tomb of the boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun. But behind it all stood Lady Evelyn Herbert—daughter of Lord Carnarvon—whose daring spirit and relentless curiosity made the mo...

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Chapter Sixty-Four

LUXOR, EGYPT

Papa does not rise. The newspapers report that a curse has felled my father, not a lowly mosquito, as I’d explained to the hounding reporters.

The headlines conjecture that the ancients denounced him for disturbing their tombs.

It doesn’t help that the same journalists who’d been excluded from covering Tutankhamun’s excavation are the ones reporting this way on Papa’s illness.