
Dr. Terence Bey (1879-1926) was the curator of the Cairo Museum of Antiquities and the employer of Evelyn Carnahan.
Biography[]
Preceded by a less scrupulous curator that had auctioned off mummies of nobles from the museum's collection, Dr. Bey had taken the post of museum curator while secretly holding the title of a Medjai, acting as a contact for the Medjai warriors within Cairo. Terence Bey was the employer of Evelyn Carnahan and had some displeasure at her efforts, as one mishap with a book being placed on its shelf led to the fall of all of the museum's bookshelves, each falling over the next like dominoes, and throwing thousands of texts around.
In 1926, Evelyn's brother Jonathan Carnahan brought an artifact to Evelyn that was at first derided as a counterfeit; a closer analysis of the artifact, a small puzzle box, revealed that it was genuine, as the puzzle box popped itself open, revealing eight key-like attachments, each with a different end, and a map made of papyrus, the map leading to the ancient City of the Dead, Hamunaptra.
Dr. Bey examined the object closely in his office, speaking skeptically at first of its authenticity, and deriding the map inside as a fake. Evelyn insisted that, despite the tales told that an evil mummy resided in Hamanaptra distorting the truth, the City of the Dead had existed. As he leaned in to say more, the map was caught in the fire coming from a candelabra on the curator's desk. The candle had burned off the map's contents concerning Hamunaptra before Evelyn and her brother could put the flames out. Dr. Bey humbly apologised and reasoned that it was perhaps for the best, as other men sought the City of the Dead and come up successful.
Evelyn and Jonathan had found the source of the map: within Cairo prison, an incarcerated American named Rick O'Connell who claimed to have been in Hamanaptra before, had found the puzzle-box and agreed to help Evelyn and her brother find the city in exchange for saving him from a hanging in the prison. Meanwhile, Dr. Bey met up that night with a group of Medjai warriors, headed by one warrior with a hook-shaped blade in place of his hand, in his office. Dr. Bey informed the warriors that Evelyn came to possess the map to Hamunaptra and the key that opened its contents. Hook suggested that the desert would kill her off, but Dr. Bey insisted that she had seen too much and must be stopped before she could cause any trouble.
After the expedition returned from Hamunaptra, Dr. Bey explained that he and Ardeth Bay were part of an ancient secret society dedicated to the protection of mankind from evil: the Medjai, whose responsibility it was "to prevent the Hight Priest Imhotep from reentering the world and spreading his curse". It's unknown how Dr. Terrence Bey died but many belived that he was killed by enslaved townspeople. Ardeth Bay buried him in the desert.