Scarabs, Traps and Cairo Shadows

In dust-choked Cairo, newspaperman Jack Mallory and archaeologist Evelyn Hart pry open a pharaoh’s inner vault and lift a brass scarab said to bring ruin. Their prize sets off spring-loaded pits, darting spears and gas-snaring chambers—ingenious booby-work older than the automobile. As telegrams, newsreel men and gangsters converge, science and superstition collide: is the scarab truly accursed, or a cunning mechanism used to protect forbidden treasure? The last panels leave a chill—fate, fraud, or something older than modern minds?