6 DECEMBER 1935, Page 6

The death of one more of the Tutankhamen excavators, Professor

J. H. Breasted, " of an undefinable malady," is duly recorded in relation to the legendary curse on all who violated • a Pharaoh's tomb.. It is true that the mortality among the excavators has on the whole been high, but it was hardly to be expected that they .would be immortal. And Professor Breasted, who survived his experiences in Egypt by thirteen years, and died at the age of 70, is not a very convincing example. of the infallibility of the curse. JAN US.