Mystery AtlasLord Carnarvon
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the financial backer of Howard Carter's excavation who died of blood poisoning in Cairo six weeks after Tutankhamun's burial chamber was opened, becoming the curse legend's central figure.
In Egypt
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Lord Carnarvon is located in Egypt — Died in Cairo six weeks after the burial chamber was opened.
Creatures & Figures
Lord Carnarvon was a victim of Curse of Tutankhamun — Popularly framed as the curse's most famous victim, though his documented cause of death, blood poisoning from an infected mosquito bite on an already frail body, is well established and mundane.