Strange Shu huang has been to the British Museum in London, he has cultural relics from all over the world, and even each venue inside will be named after the name of each country, which says that photography is not allowed, but if you really take pictures, no one will stop you. Go to China pipe aisle on both sides of the place is also placed blue and white porcelain, but when you go to just a few venues to maintain cultural relics, the Chinese pavilion did not let people open to visit, a little regret, originally wanted to see it with their own eyes, after all, is a national shame, is what each of us Chinese have to remember in our hearts.
Egypt
In distant and mysterious Egypt, there is such a mausoleum, although it is buried with countless treasures, but no one has dared to step on it easily for 3,000 years. Rumor has it that any thief who dares to invade the Pharaoh's dormant place will be cursed by the Pharaoh. No matter where you flee, you can't escape the judgment of death. This is not to blame Shu Huang for deceiving the public. There are indeed many bizarre stories that have taken place around this mausoleum. Today, please join the strange Shu Huang to break through the heavy fog and approach the pyramid together to uncover these mysteries that have been sealed for thousands of years. Who is the owner of this mausoleum? How terrible was the curse he left behind? What will happen to the cursed?
death
As we all know, one of the four ancient civilizations is ancient Egypt, which, like China, has a long history and brilliant culture. This ancient country has experienced a total of 21 dynasties and 171 pharaohs, and these pharaohs will build them a magnificent mausoleum after their deaths. Among them, the Tutankhamun Mausoleum is arguably the most luxurious mausoleum in Egypt. Although its area is less than 300 square meters, in this burial chamber, archaeologists have found as many as 5,000 pieces of various precious cultural relics, and the coffin is even more gorgeous, its weight is more than a ton, and countless rare treasures fill the entire tomb.
Ancient Egyptian pharaohs
It is worth mentioning that in this tomb there is a curse word, which roughly means that if anyone dares to disturb the pharaoh's sleep, death will come to earth. Since then, the first people to enter the mausoleum have died one after another for various reasons, and have been hyped up by the unscrupulous media of the time as the curse of the pharaoh. So what happened to the 19-year-old Egyptian pharaoh?
If anyone dared to disturb Pharaoh's rest, death would come to earth
Tutankhamun Mausoleum is a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, originally named Tutankhadon. The change in his name also attests to the change in his faith. When it comes to conversions, we have to mention religion. When Turankhamun came to power, he re-established the god Amun, believing that the god would bless him forever, and moved the capital back to Thebes. Tutankhamun was a young pharaoh who ruled for a short time, although he reigned at the age of nine.
Tutankhamun
In addition, the cause of death of the young pharaoh is also quite strange, so how did he die? An answer was given by a radioactivity expert involved in the study, Tutankhamun's mausoleum, who took out Tutankhamun's mummy and performed advanced CT scans to create comprehensive 3D data. First they discovered a secret, that is, Tutankhamun's thigh was actually cut off.
Tutankhamun Mausoleum
At first they thought that Tutankhamun might have been killed before he died, but later discovered the cut in 2015 because Howard Carter, who first discovered Tutankhamun's mausoleum in 1922, cut it off because he could not remove the mummy from the coffin, and used brute force to remove Tutankhamun's gold mask, causing the mummy to appear hundreds of fragments, and then they put the mummy back and sealed it.
Tutankhamun gold mask
This also made people suspect that tutankhamun died because he was hit with a blunt object, and later after research, it was found that there was no blunt weapon on his body, and the blunt weapon that appeared was damaged, that is, he did not die due to external forces. Later, through the digital reconstruction of Tutankhamun's mummy, it was restored to its original appearance, and this physical appearance is close to 95% of the real Tutankhamun. With regard to Tutacamon, one of the more widely known is the curse of the pharaohs.
Tutankhamun
So how did this curse come about? Let's turn the lens to the early 19th century, when Egypt was occupied by the British. A British archaeologist named Howard Carter was appointed inspector of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority. He has been working in the Valley of the Kings since 1899, mainly restoring the tombs of the pharaohs. But he has been determined to find the legendary Tutankhamun Mausoleum, but the search has been fruitless and has not progressed for many years. It was not until later that a nobleman from England was granted a concession to excavate the Pharaoh, and the nobleman, like Carter, had been searching for Tutankhamun's mausoleum. So Carter was appointed as the tour leader to search for any locations that might have been missing before. Unfortunately, world war I broke out not long after the work began.
Howard Carter
After the end of World War I in 1917, the search resumed. This search has been looking for five years, and the cost of archaeology is getting bigger and bigger, but the shadow of Tutankhamun's mausoleum has not been found, and the nobleman is more and more dissatisfied, and he began to consider divestment, he decided to find it again, if he can't find it, it will be completely over. Carter was lost, and he returned to a spot they had given up earlier.
Excavation site
They were building a row of log cabins here, and while the staff was demolishing them, they were suddenly tripped over by a rock. It turned out that underneath these wooden houses was a stone staircase, and Carter dug out all of this staircase to find a gate with a seal, and the seal with hieroglyphs on it had not yet been opened. Carter was overjoyed, and he immediately sent an urgent telegram to Lord Carrabela in England explaining the discovery. By the time the nobleman and his daughter arrived here, it was already night.
log cabin
Carter took a candle and looked into the crack in the door, and the nobleman asked eagerly, What did he see? Carter responded that I saw the most wonderful thing in the world. So that night, without any Egyptian antiquities officials present, they eagerly opened the gate and entered the burial chamber. It wasn't until the next day that they informed Egyptian antiquities officials to take stock of the large number of items inside, and after people opened the coffin, they were shocked to find that it was the mummy of Tutankhamun who had been searching for it.
candle
Unlike other pharaonic mummies, Tutankhamun's mummy is covered with an exquisitely crafted gold mask, and this exquisite artifact has caused a sensation in the world, and Tutankhamun's mausoleum is the only pharaonic tomb found in thousands of years that has not been stolen and excavated. Tutankhamun's burial chamber is like an extremely rich collection of more than five thousand works of art. Interestingly, when these archaeologists were doing CT for Tutankhamun, they suddenly flew sand and turned stones, and the sky was full of yellow sand, and even the most advanced instruments that had just been bought from the United States failed for nearly two hours for no reason, and then it was indeed like a curse, and all those who had come into contact with Tutankhamun died mysteriously.
Flying sand turns stones, and the sky is full of yellow sand
More than 20 people have died in more than 20 years, one a year, the cause of death is unknown. I don't know when a terrible saying has been circulating in the folk. These are the retribution for disturbing the pharaoh's peaceful sleep. Do you know? Later, a ship called the Titanic crashed into an iceberg and sank into the Atlantic. And this ship used to carry a sarcophagus. Is this really a coincidence? We don't know.
Titanic
At present, the most recognized science by scientists is the so-called fungal theory, and the radioactive element theory. Later, the scientists organized a large expedition, this time they found a clump of things outside Tutankhamun's tomb. After scientists took these things back to the laboratory for testing, they found that they were so-called fungi.
mummy
They feed on mummies and funerals, and the Nile flood will bring them more food, and these fungi, once attached to the human body, can easily cause people with weak resistance to get sick. If the original trauma is more likely to cause secondary infection, scientists have also found uranium ore, which contains a lot of radioactive material. Perhaps it is precisely because of these radiation and fungal infections that some people will die bizarrely, and even be rendered as a curse by the media.
Uranium ore
But it is worth mentioning that some people think that the pharaohs of ancient Egypt may have come from Africa, Western Europe, and even our country. In 2005, three groups of scientists from Egypt, France and the United States were invited to National Geographic and reconstructed Tutankhamun's true appearance through three-dimensional scanning. At that time, the entire network set off a bloody storm, which can be described as a hundred schools of thought. The Afrocentric crowd, which objected to the fact that the avatar featured Caucasians, was unusually adamant that, based on the geographic location of the pyramid, the pharaohs should be black.
The restored tutankhamun's true appearance
But in anthropological terms, the pharaohs were more like East Asians. In 2007, archaeologists successfully excavated a female pharaoh in Egypt. Unfortunately, however, a large piece of the female pharaoh's face was missing. But despite this, we can still rely on superb modern technology to glimpse the appearance of this female pharaoh. Professor Zhao Wencheng of the mainland accidentally skimmed a Chinese woman who looked exactly like this female pharaoh. Even Professor Sun Weidong of the Chinese Academy of Sciences once said that according to the description of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Dayu Zhishui was actually the water of the Nile River in ancient Egypt. Which country do you think Pharaoh really was? Please leave your insights in the barrage area.
Sun Weidong
Strange Shu huang has been to the British Museum in London, he has cultural relics from all over the world, and even each venue inside will be named after the name of each country, which says that photography is not allowed, but if you really take pictures, no one will stop you. Go to China pipe aisle on both sides of the place is also placed blue and white porcelain, but when you go to just a few venues to maintain cultural relics, the Chinese pavilion did not let people open to visit, a little regret, originally wanted to see it with their own eyes, after all, is a national shame, is what each of us Chinese have to remember in our hearts.
British Museum