The Curse of King Tutankhamun

Faith curse aroused the attention of many people because of the mysterious deaths of some members

of the team, Howard Carter and other prominent visitors to the tomb after that shortly. Carter's team opened the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62) in the year 1922, thereby unleashing new era for Egyptology. The work of the famous Egyptologist James Henry Breasted with Carter shortly after the tomb was opened for the first time. How informed that Carter sent a messenger to eliminate the need for his home. On his way back to his home, he thought he heard a voice like a faint cry of a what, when he saw the arrival of the entrance bird cage occupied by a cobra, the Egyptian monarchy code. Canary Carter died on his mouth and that's what fueled the local rumor of a curse. Transfer Arthur Weigel, former Inspector General of the Egyptian government for the effects that this was explained to Carter's house stormed by the same royal cobra that protect the king's head to hit the enemies on the same day to break the tomb of King .. reports of this incident reported in The New York Times on 22 in December 1922, the first cases were mysterious death of Lord Carnarvon. Has been Baawwadh bite, and later while he was injured shave sting place accidentally. He then became infected, where it led to blood poisoning. Two weeks before the death of Karnavon Marie Corelli wrote a fictional letter to the New York World Journal, which cited a quote from a mysterious book he asserts that "terrible punishment" will be attached to the sealed tomb Bmguethm. This was followed by a revolution in the media, with reports that the curse is found the tomb of King, but this is not true. Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes author, suggested that time that the death of Carnarvon occurred because of the existence of "elements" and put the priests of Tutankhamun for the protection of the royal tomb, and this contributed to the increased media attention. Arthur said that before six weeks of the death of Carnarvon seen laughing and jokes when he walked to the tomb of the king, and he saw to say to a reporter nearby (e. P. Murtan) "I am I will give him six weeks to live," I found the first autopsy of the body of King Tutankhamun by Dr. Derry scar tissue Mmeltima on the left cheek of the king, but since the Carnarvon had buried six months of this before it was not possible to determine whether the wound site at King identical with the deadly mosquito bite in Carnarvon. In 1925, anthropologist Henrifeld visited the shrine accompanied by Breasted and pointed to the kindness of Wood Carter. He also reported how a paperweight given to a friend Carteralsar Bruce Ingham of mummified hand with wrist bracelet and carrying Cursed be he that moves my body mark. You should come to him fire, water and epidemics. After receiving the gift shortly, Ingram burned house, then followed after that flood when it was rebuilt. Howard Carter was quite skeptical curses. He has been in his memoirs, "strange", adding that in May 1926 saw the jackal of the same type of Anubis, the keeper of the dead, for the first time in more than thirty-five years of work in the desert. Skeptics pointed out that many of those who visited the tomb or helped in the discovery lived a long and healthy life. The study showed that among the 85 people who were present when the tomb was opened and the coffin, only eight of them were killed in ten years. The other was all alive, including Howard Carter, who died later due to lymphoma at the age of 64 in 1939.

Possible explanations

Some people predict that there is a potentially deadly fungi planted in the closed cemeteries were released into the air when it opened. Preferably Arthur Conan Doyle this idea, and is expected to fungi have developed deliberately to punish thieves graves. While there is no evidence that these pathogens have killed Lord Carnarvon, but there is no doubt that there are hazardous substances accumulate in the ancient tombs in. However, in the concentrations usually causes serious illnesses only for people with weakened immune systems. It showed taken air samples from inside the coffin slots high levels of formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and these gases are all toxic, but has been easily detectable by strong scents. Hydrogen sulfide discoverable at low concentrations (up to 100PPM) which serve as a nervous factor on the sense of smell, the (1000ppm) capable of killing a person for the first inhalation.

Deaths attributed to the curse of Tutankhamun

Opening the tomb in the twenty-ninth of February, 1922, Lord Carnarvon, is a financial supporter of the team of exploration has been present during the opening of the grave, he died on April 5, 1923 m, having bitten by a mosquito hitting him infected, died after the opening of the tomb for four months and 7 days. Died (George Jay Gould I) in the French Riviera on May 16, 1923, after suffering a fever that after his visit to the tomb. Egyptian Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy, died on July 10, 1923 Guetll dead by his wife. Esquire Colonel Aubrey Herbert, a member of parliament, a brother Carnarvon third brother, became completely blind and died on the 26th of September 1923, due to blood poisoning through the teeth of an operation to restore his sight. Joel Wolfe, a millionaire and visitors to the tomb of South Africa, was shot dead in Johannesburg on 13 November 1923, killing blackmailer Baron Kurt von ڨltaym and that was his real name, Carl Friedrich Moritz Krtza. He died Sir Archibald Douglas Reed (Archibald Douglas-Reid), a doctor who has done x-rays for the mummy of Tutankhamun, in the January 15, 1924 m from a mysterious disease. Sir Lee Stack died (Lee Stack), the Governor General of the Sudan, on November 19, 1924, was assassinated while driving in Cairo. Arthur Kratendn Mays (Arthur Cruttenden Mace - A. C. Mace), which is in the team for exploration by Carter, died in 1928 due to arsenic poisoning. Esquire Mervyn Herbert, a third brother, the brother's "Carnarvon" brother and brother of former mentioned "Aubrey Herbert," died on May 25, 1929, according to the policies included in the reports because of "malaria pneumonia." Commander of the esteemed Richard Bethel (Richard Bethell), personal secretary Carter's (Carter), died on November 15, 1929 after he was found strangled in his bed. Richard Pilkington Chral Bathal, Baron's third city of Westbury, a father who was mentioned above, died on February 20, 1930, it is assumed that he threw himself from the seventh floor of his apartment. Fatah Howard Carter (Howard Carter) cemetery on February 16, 1923, and died later after more than a decade on March 2, 1939 AD However some still instruct the cause of death to 'curse