h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ivor Plann was, co-incidently, the Emeritus professor of Archaeology at Queens, Belfast, from 1927-1942 and narrowly missed out on the discovery of the Tutankhamun tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, in 1922.
He arrived just two weeks after Howard Carter. When he held his flickering candle up to the space leading into the main chamber , and was asked "What do you see"?, he famously replied;

"Nothing"

He was also the last known victim of the "Curse of the tomb" when he died of Pneumonia, at home, in his bed, aged 106, in 1942.

Other great moments in Ivor's career included mistaking the Nazca lines in Peru as parking spaces for Roman chariots, descibing the Vindolanda tablets as 'Just a panacea', and trying to trace a direct line of decendancy between a 2nd century builder working on Hadrian's wall and the Wimpy construction company.

Due to a clerical error, Ivor was buried in a family tomb in Highgate cemetery, north London, England. I say an error, as it wasn't HIS family's tomb.

I have a gut feeling that this plan will work out reeely well. I had an instinctive feeling of joy and relief, on your behalf.

Go Mala!! Yay!!!

Master Mala? Sounds good

Sounds like a character from Discworld

That's great Mala, congrats!