My great-great Aunt Helen Bachert Aldrich and her husband, National Geographic photographer Edgar Aldrich, were both there that day. Edgar took many of the photos of the event which subsequently appeared in National Geographic.
Edgar and Helen died together in a mysterious auto crash having no apparent cause in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1928.
The curse of the tomb?
We'll never know.
How interesting to have a direct family connection to such an important and famous archeological find.
“…a recent study of journals and death records indicates no statistical difference between the age of death of those who entered the tomb and those on the expedition who did not. Indeed, most lived past 70.”
This may be true and premature deaths at that time were not uncommon as life expectancy was perhaps shorter than today and accidents happened then as they do now but there were some very strange and unusual deaths and tragedies surrounding those who first entered the tomb. I am not a superstitious person but I find it all very strange and interesting.
Do you have any links to your great aunt’s husband’s National Geographic photographs?
You wrote that forever ago. But wanted to say hello. We are cousins. Helen’s sister Fannie was my great great grandmother. Her daughter Dorothy was my great grandmother. I have some of Helen and Edgar’s things as do most of family members.