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Sometime in the mid-1980s, when I was but a wee taught, I was enjoying a little pre-bedtime

snack in the kitchen while my parents

watched TV in the living room nearby. I heard snippets of a show about a fascinating tomb

filled with gold, an archaeological discovery unlike any other, and one that had entranced

generations. But the TV show loudly declared, such incredible treasure came with a severe price,

as so many of the major players involved in its discovery had died painfully, unexpectedly, or both.

That's because the tomb was, is cursed. This narrative lodged itself in my little kid brain, and it terrified me. I recall that

not too terribly long after, my mom, a big fan of all things ancient Egypt, asked me that generic

childhood question, what do you want to be when you grow up? Now, please note that the answer was

not art historian, and other than becoming a

paleontologist, I couldn't really come up with any good answers. So she tossed a few my way.

Veterinarian? Nah. Ballerina? No. Astronaut? Definitely not, I declared, because it wasn't long

after the Challenger disaster after all. With a gleam in her eye,

she paused, and recalling that recent TV special, she said, how about an Egyptologist, a person who

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