European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Seven decades have not dimmed King tuts allure by Mimi Man the associated press Hussein Abdel Rasoul vividly remembers those Bright november Days 70 years ago when a forgotten pharaoh called King Tut became a superstar. It began As Abdel Rasoul then 12, bowed Tea for his father Hassan and family Friend Howard Carter the most respected archaeologist on the West Bank of the Nile opposite Luxor. Nearby Carter s diggers removed the hut1, of ancient workmen relentlessly seeking a Long lost Tomb. Sui i Kenly commotion. My father and Carter went immediately to see Fuit was happening Quot Abdel Rasoul said 1 i Inyo a found the top of a  t Low a i Carter look when he got the m a a "v1 by t j a indeed Quot said Abdel Rasoul a i a a a re a a a have dug up tombs and pm. I w is a Quot and illegally for 1 not a i i in a Waist ,111. Lit 11 remembers the boy to r and his father made a i a or into the darkness of a to ii a Quot they said nothing As though the ton ill h id t a Quot a robbed like All the others Quot a tit i r Quot out a d. Quot they did t Trust me to keep Tho ,  i knew something was up. Fil to  surrounded the Tomt a Quot i he Ini he. Dark Ness held almost intact the world of Luton Khamune sent to eternity 3.245 year Allier with Gold jewelry weapons and family heirlooms. Nothing about Carter s world the world of the Young Tea maker indeed the world of r Oinui Oncas and Kings everywhere a would Ever be quite the same. Seventy years later King Tut s world seems As exciting As Ever. Its lure Lias never been More apparent than last week when Lay Luin officials announced the unexpected reopening of Tho Tomb which had been dosed while experts debate How to protect endangered Wall paintings. Tourist authorities perhaps fearful of lagging Tounsi brought about by terrorist attacks on Nile visitors have opened the Tomt Lor the next two months. The Power of the Young King May be rooted in his vast wealth. Quot its the Gold so much Gold Quot said Mohammed Saleh director of Cairo a egyptian museum and keeper of the King Tut collection. The most amazing item is the beaten Gold burial mask which measures 54 centimetres 21 it inches top to Bottom and weighs 10 kilograms 22 pounds. It covered the face of the Young pharaoh s badly decomposed Mummy. A never never never could we reproduce it today Quot Saleh said. The Tomb held an incredible assortment of treasure. Saleh said the museum has catalogued 5,220 items from it. Only a few witnesses Are left to Tell of those Days of discovery. Two memories recur Gold and Howard Carter the Man. At 82, Abdel Rasoul still makes Tea which he Sells to tourists Tomb weary from Tho valleys of the Kings and Queens at his nearby rest House. I he rest House is add cent to the Ramos Seum the great mortuary Temple of Ramses ii. On one Wall of the House hangs a picture of a tall Noble youth wearing one of 1 ill s Coll is studded with semiprecious stones. Quot or. Cater allowed me to Wear it Quot said Abdel Rasoul still Noble in his faded Blue Galabina. Quot a Nice Man. Or.  the Young Abdel Rasoul s face bears a striking resemblance to wooden models of Tut s face. When the Tomb was discovered Peter Tadros was 14, the paymaster for Carter s 200 diggers. The wage was 2 plasters a Day a tidy sum or the time. Tadros now Luxor s most famous tour guide said Carter Quot never took any real Money for his  he remembers him As a meticulous archaeologist whose life. Was often lonely. A we used to tease him he should get married Quot Tadros said. Quot but or. Carter would always say i m married to Egypt s tombs and temples Quot what Tadros most remembers from the Tomb is Tho third coffin which held  s Mummy it is solid Gold and weighs 110 kilograms 243 pounds but his first thought when the Tomb comes officials have reopened tuts Tomb to tourists despite the damage caused by overexposure including the disintegration of this mural of two courtiers. To mind Landros . Is always the Man who found it Howard Carter. Quot a great sense of humor Quot he said. Quot he was 100 percent honest a. Carter came to the desolate burial ground in january 1900 As an antiquities official Short of Cash. Three years later he met lord Carnarvon an aristocrat recovering in Egypt from a near fatal automobile Accident. The archaeologist believed and convinced Carnarvon that within the Barren hillsides was the Tomb of an obscure pharaoh tutankhamen. With the British Nobleman providing the Money years of searching produced tantalizing titbits and Hope for Carter but Little else. On nov. 1, 1922, he began a new excavation season aware that it would be the last financed by Carnarvon. On nov. 4, the Day Abdel Rasoul was making Lea workers hit the top of a staircase 4 meters 13 feet below Tho Entrance to the Tomb of Ramses i. The next Day they reached a plastered Wall coveted with blurred Royal seals. Summoned by Cater lord Carnarvon and his daughter lady Evelyn arrived in Luxor on nov. 23. Thice Days later a nov. 26, 1922 a All Throe gazed upon a second door stamped with Oval seals. Carter made a Small Hole and peered inside. Quot at first i could see nothing Quot he wrote Quot but slowly from the Mist strange animals statues and Gold a everywhere the glint of  by feb. 16, Carter and Carnarvon stood at the threshold of the burial chamber but the Nobleman would never see the pharaoh. Carnarvon left for a few Days rest at Aswan. Along the Way a Mosquito bit him. He nicked the bite while shaving. Infection set in then pneumonia. His death on april 5 gave Rise to King Tut s curse death to those who would defile the Tomb. For months newspapers everywhere ran amok telling of victim after victim. Is there a curse Quot i m still Here Quot said  a curse of tutankhamen still going strongly the associated press to ii i dec ovary of King Tut s Tomb in nov Maui 11v.�?T  a godsend for those in Serieh of ii. By. Black magic and death in that a land of Tho  ,. I he an h be pharaoh or simply King Tut s Euise. Was bom win the death of the 5th Lail of Cama Ivon on april to 1 Irwin the effects of an inflamed Mosquito into Cam us ii had  archaeologist Souaid Cartei s expedition., in. The Royal burial grounds for almost 20 years and a it o in awed him into tie treasure filled Tomb of 1 Tui i Hui i a i two weeks Defoto Carnarvon s death novelist mane coi Eili Pic pics de. Quot dire punishment Fol own any rash inti Dri into a sealed Tomb Quot l liter  lot cruise and death by a see then vi11h Yog Rumor was reported  i v Tae would s press. A sandstorm appeared As the last Man climbed from the Tomb and into the Sunshine a Fawk appeared heading West the spirit of Tho pharaoh cursing those who violated ins Tomb a cobra swallowed Carter s pet Canary on the Day the Tomb was opened in ancient Egypt a cobra eym holi de Loyal Power Cano s lights went out the instant Cama Ivon died at the same tinny in England Carnarvon s pet Ternor suit in howled and dropped dead doctors examining King Tut s Mummy found a scarab he depression on the left Cheek corresponding to Carnarvon a Mosquito bite. And More death by association Carnarvon s half brother Aubrey Herbert visited the Tomb then died an egyptian Prince whose family claimed pharaonic ties died in a London hotel. Amen can ra4wa\ soon George Jay Gou d died of a Noumena  per of after catching a cold in Tho Tomb. Arthur Mace an associate of Carter died before the Tomb was cleared a French Egypt Logist Georges Beneditz died from a fall after seeing the Tomb. Carter the first Man inside the Tomb scoffed at the idea of a curse Quot All sane people should dismiss such inventions with  he died quietly in 1939 at age g4. Iwo egyptians who were with Carter during his excavation of Tut s Tomb agree that the curse is fiction. I Fie Mere mention of it angers Peter Tadros 84, now a Luxor tour guide a emr. Carter spent years searching for me Tomb Quot he Saai the curse takes away from the wonderful  Hussein Abdel Rasoul who was 12 when he entered the Tomb /0 years ago sad there was no cobra. There was no Falcon Page 16 a the stars and sir lpns o , december 12, 1992