Curse of Tutankhamen - what is it?

Question

My son wants to know. Is it about the people who discovered his mummy getting ill and dying? anyone got any serious info thanks :)

Answer 1

When Lord Carnarvon died on 5 April 1923, seven weeks after the official opening of pharaoh Tutankhamun's burial chamber, rumours were rife about a curse. News of Tutankhamun's tomb and its discoverers had sent the world's media into a frenzy and the death of Lord Carnarvon added another twist for eager journalists.

All sorts of links were found. The lights of Cairo were said to have gone out at the moment of his death (not an uncommon occurrence back then), while back at Carnarvon's English estate his dog, Susie, was supposed to have howled and died at the same time.

Carnarvon's death came just a couple of weeks after a public warning by novelist Mari Corelli that there would be dire consequences for anyone who entered the sealed tomb. The media and public lapped it up. Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and a believer in the occult, announced that Carnarvon's death could have been the result of a "Pharaoh's curse".

Answer 2

The man that funded the expedition was Lord Caernarvon and the Archaeologist was Howard Carter. There was a lot of rumours around the deaths linked to the opening of the tomb. Lord Caernarvon cut himself while shaving in Cairo and they believe he developed blood poisoning, septicaemia. Others say it was a mosquito bite. When he died the lights were suppose to have gone out in Cairo and his dog died at the same time at his estate. He is actually buried at Roehampton Cemetry.

Answer 3

No. it quite is actual that the various human beings in touch interior the excavation died interior of many years, yet maximum of them have been right down to organic reasons - Lord Caernarvon have been given an contaminated mosquito chew which, interior the days in the previous antibiotics, gave him blood poisoning, with deadly effects. yet many different contributors of the excursion lived for years afterwards, Howard Carter lived till 1939, by potential of which era he replaced into in his 60s, and the communities secure practices defend - who each so often slept interior the tomb to maintain robbers away - died in a nursing abode basically some years in the past elderly ninety 5. the story a pair of Tutankhamun relic on the sizeable is nonsense: The sizeable sank in 1912, which replaced into better than 10 years in the previous they found Tut's tomb.

Answer 4

Here is a good link. Not much of a curse.

Also note that those who have analyzed the matter have chosen to ignore the hundreds of Egyptian laborers who were involved in the tomb operation, as if these persons were unimportant. One common laborer from the area died 70 years after he helped open the tomb, but his death was not reported as significant in the overall picture.

Answer 5

there was a rumor that there was a curse because of the people who died during the excavation of King Tutankhamen's burial site. however, these were false as there were logical explanations for the " curse " many of the deaths were caused by the contamination of handling artifacts without protective gear.

Answer 6

I found this:

For many years, rumors of a "curse" (probably fueled by newspapers at the time of the discovery) persisted, emphasizing the early death of some of those who had first entered the tomb. However, a recent study of journals and death records indicates no statistical difference between the age of death of those who entered the tomb and those on the expedition who did not. Indeed, most lived past 70.

Answer 7

Many tombs from ancient Egypt have warnings about tomb profanators. These writings were put close to of the entrance in order to try superstition to avoid tomb raiders.

Hystoplasmose. Fungus found in "Guano" and can be deadly. This is one of possible causes of deaths after one of those early visits to the ancient tombs.

Answer 8

Logic would suggest:

First of all, curses are complete b0llocks. At a time when it was simply inpractical to have a security presence outside of newly found tombs in Egypt, what was the BEST way to scare off potential looters?

That's right, make up a big fat lie about a so called "curse". Pretty clever if you think about it - it did keep a lot of potential crooks away.

But please don't carry on believing this old wives tale, which was created at a time when people were still very superstitious.

Also, I beleive the tombs unlocked a lot of secrets regarding the human race and religion and they had to stop people from going into the tombs to find out the truth...

That's why Howard Carter was murdered - he didn't die from an infected mosquito bite.

And thats also why they made up the whole "curse" story - it was one of the best ways of stopping people from going anywhere near the place.

Never under estimate the Power of Suggestion, after all, this is all a curse is...

Answer 9

Just to add to the rest of the information which thus far is what happened.

Scientists also discovered that there was an unidentified micro-organism that was found in the tomb many years later. They suspect that the opening of the tomb revitalized it and that's what caused the founder's death. Since they didn't have all that hi-tech devices like we have today it was easier to blame a curse. However the organism is highly fatal.

Answer 10

Non exist-ant - some died of natural causes 10 years later and the founder himself died of old age.