Pounds 12m Curse of King Tut ; His Tomb-Raider Ancestor Brought Down the Wrath of the Pharoahs. Now Lord Carnarvon Is Resorting to Desperate Measures to Save One of Britain's Most Glorious Stately Homes How I See It [Scot Region]

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EVER since the dying howls of Susie, the master's dog, rang out on that fateful night in April 1923, this magnificent stately home has been inextricably linked to the 'Curse of the Pharaohs'.

I might be standing in a Hampshire park, with views across to Berkshire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire, but it is the mysteries of ancient Egypt which have put Highclere Castle, ancestral home of the Herbert family, Earls of Carnarvon, on the national map.

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Pounds 12m Curse of King Tut ; His Tomb-Raider Ancestor Brought Down the Wrath of the Pharoahs. Now Lord Carnarvon Is Resorting to Desperate Measures to Save One of Britain's Most Glorious Stately Homes How I See It [Scot Region]

Now, however, another -- somewhat less glamorous -- curse looms for the House of Herbert: leaks, damp and eroding sandstone.

It was the 5th Earl who famously went in search of Egyptian treasure, discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun, and never made it home, dying of blood poisoning in a Cairo hotel, aged 56.

At the moment of his death, i...

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