Do Ancient Egypt Mummies Really Curse?

This rumor didn’t stop the archaeologists from opening the tomb of King Tutankhamun, who died at his age of nineteen. Ancient Egyptians believed that their kings, whom they worshipped equivalent to GOD, will get life once again. Hence they used to mummify the corpses of the dead king and keep them in Pyramid tombs, with all his belongings and riches around him. They will then close the tomb and seal it.

The Search for the Missing King

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Howard Carter, an Englishman was so much interested in discovering the tomb of Tut. In 1891 he arrived to Egypt with the support of a rich man named Lord Carnarvon. He couldn’t find anything until 1922. On November 4 1922, he found Tut’s tomb along with his fellow archaeologists. Lord Carnarvon, who supported Carter, came to Egypt and got surprised by the amazing treasures along with the mummy of the boy-king Tut, which was in a golden coffin, along with two other coffins.

No one bothered about curse, until the death of Lord Carnarvon. Few months after the discovery of the tomb, Lord Carnarvon got ill and died at Cairo and it looked he got infected by some insect bite. Also legend says that when he died, all lights went out in Cairo because of power failure. Later when Tut’s mummy was unwrapped in 1925, it was found that he too had a wound on his left cheek, which looked same that of Lord Carnarvon. In 1929 eleven more people who were somehow related to the discovery of the tomb died with unknown causes. Two of them were from Carnarvon’s family and two from Carter’s.

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But Carter who was the main person behind this lived till his age of 66 and died purely due to natural reason. May be this is because he never believed in the curse.

Later scientists associated the deaths with some fungus found in the tomb, which is believable.

Mummy in Titanic?

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It was believed that the mummy of Princess of Amen-Ra, who lived 1,500 years before Christ, was in Titanic when it sank. There are lots of stories and rumors still associated with the mummy of the princess, saying it caused lots of death, before it finally rested in peace under the Atlantic Ocean, along with 1500 souls of the passengers who travelled in Titanic ship.

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Did the curse of the Princess haunt the mighty ship? GOD knows.