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Alabaster Smith was born in Bexley, England on June 12th, 1872, the oldest child of six to the archaeologist John Smith and Lady Martha Jones. Alabaster spent much of his childhood with relatives in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate, the birthplace of both his parents. Receiving only limited formal education at Alabaster, he showed talent as an artist. In 1891 impressed by his artistic skills, Alabaster assisted his father, in the excavation and recording of Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan.
 
Although only 19, Alabaster was innovative in improving the methods of copying tomb decoration. In 1892, he worked under the tutelage of Flinders Petrie for one season at Amarna, the capital founded by the pharaoh Akhenaten. From 1894 to 1899, he worked with Édouard Naville at Deir el-Bahari, where he recorded the wall reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut.
 
In 1899 Alabaster oversaw a number of excavations and restorations at nearby Thebes, while in the Valley of the Kings he supervised the systematic exploration of the valley by the American archaeologist Theodore Davis and Howard Carter In 1904, after a dispute with local people over tomb thefts. Alabaster was praised for his improvements in the protection of, and accessibility to, existing excavation sites, and his aid in the development of a grid-block system for searching for tombs. The Antiquities Service also provided funding for Alabaster to head his own excavation projects.
 
Alabaster resigned from the Antiquities Service in 1905 after siding with Carter and the Egyptian personnel during Saqqara Affair. Moving back to Bexley, Alabaster was without formal employment for nearly three years. making a research assistant under Lord Poldi Luitpold.
 
In 1907, he began work for Lord Carnarvon, who employed him to supervise the excavation of nobles' tombs in Deir el-Bahri, near Thebes. Gaston Maspero, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, had recommended Alabaster to Carnarvon as he knew he would apply modern archaeological methods and systems of recording. Alabaster soon developed a good working relationship with his patron.
 
In 1914, Lord Carnarvon received the concession to dig in the Valley of the Kings. Alabaster assisted with the work, undertaking a systematic search for any tombs missed by previous expeditions, in particular that of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. However, excavations were soon interrupted by the First World War, Alabaster spent the war years working for the British Government as a diplomatic courier and translator. He enthusiastically resumed his excavation work towards the end of 1917.
 
by 1922, Lord Carnarvon had become dissatisfied with the lack of results after several years of finding little. After considering withdrawing his funding, Carnarvon agreed, after a discussion with Carter and Alabaster, that he would fund one more season of work in the Valley of the Kings.
 
Alabaster returned to the Valley of Kings and investigated a line of huts that he had abandoned a few seasons earlier. On 4 November 1922, Alabaster helped with digging out of the steps that lead to the top of a mud-plastered doorway.
 
On November 11th, 1922, the excavation was visited Lord Poldi Luitpold offered to contact Alabaster to help fund an expedition in northern Iran. Feeling undervalued by Carter, Alabaster agreed to take on the expedition. After a night of celebrating with Lord Luitpold, Alabaster was embraced by becoming a vampire. Alabaster worked with Lord Luitpold excavating ancient vampiric locations, in the search for dangerous artifacts. 
 
In November of 1979 while revisiting their first dig site in northern Iran. Alabaster and Lord Luitpold were ambushed by Iranian revolutionaries although Alabaster escaped his sire was killed.

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