Evelyn, despite being experienced in Egyptology, was denied an application by the Bembridge scholars in England at first, as they had insisted that she lacked experience. ![]() Evelyn studied under professor Julian Winter at the University of Oxford in England and harbored a schoolgirl crush on him, a notion that caused her brother laughter years later.Īt some point in the 1920's, Evelyn and Jonathan's parents were killed in a plane crash attributed to a curse connected to a mummy that Evelyn's father had disturbed, and as a result, Evelyn and her brother received a yearly stipend of several hundred pounds, which Evelyn spent according to her need, while Jonathan wasted the vast majority on liquor. At some point in her girlhood, Evelyn fell through the ice at a lake, resulting in a lifelong terror of falling through the ice. Evelyn's interest in Egypt and its ancient history commenced when she learned, in her youth, of the Book of Amun-Ra, the finding of which she marked as a sort of a life's pursuit. ![]() Evelyn Carnahan was, at first, a librarian that would go on to have many adventures in stopping an ancient evil from resurfacing onto the Earth.Įvelyn Carnahan was born in London, England, her father being a famed explorer that loved Egypt so much that he married an Egyptian woman who became the mother of Evelyn and Jonathan Carnahan.
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