Doctor Sophocles Sarcophagus (French: Philémon Siclone) is an absent-minded archaeologist. He meets Tintin on a cruise ship at the beginning of Cigars of the Pharaoh, and longs to find the tomb of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh. He leads Tintin to the tomb hidden under the sand, but disappears soon after finding it. When Cigars of the Pharaoh was first published in the early 1930s, Sarcophagus was left an unnamed and beardless scholar who wore sunglasses. When Tintin explored the tomb he found sarcophagi out of his own interest, not for the scholar, who does not even turn up in the Red Sea incident — thus, how he ends up in India is left a mystery. In fact, Tintin even speculated that the scholar was himself a member of the gang of drug smugglers that he found himself pitted against.