<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > curator dies violently</h1>
A historian named Philip Bell once wrote a book about ancient Egyptian tombs to the effect that if anyone dared to break into the pharaoh's mausoleum, they would die. Whether they were for scientific investigation or wanted to steal wealth, they would enjoy the same treatment, and the book gives many examples of how many archaeologists died for various reasons after contact with the tombs of the pharaohs, the most representative of which is the death of The Director of the Cairo Museum, Jamel Mehrairaire, who never believed this statement, saying: "I have dealt with Egyptian tombs and mummies many times in my life, am I not still alive?" But less than four weeks after he uttered these words, something strange happened when Mechler died suddenly and violently, he died of a sudden heart attack, at the age of fifty-two, which is said to be the day of his death, which was the day of the exhibition of Tutankhamun's treasures.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > Tutankhamun</h1>
Tutankhamun was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, this pharaoh was relatively mediocre in his lifetime, but famous for an archaeological excavation, Tutankhamun's tomb was never stolen for three thousand years, until 1922 was discovered by the British archaeologist Howard Carter, and a large number of unique treasures were excavated in it. Carter came from a middle-class British family, from childhood obsessed with ancient Egyptian culture, at the age of 16 began to wander egypt, in 1904, he traveled to the Valley of the Kings area, he has always believed that there are important pharaonic tombs have not been found, and Lord Carnaphon is a British nobleman, amateur Egyptian archaeologists, in 1907 he came to the Valley of the Kings to prepare to find the tomb of the pharaoh and happened to meet Howard Carter, one has money, one technology, the two hit it off, and then began to dig for treasure, this digging, that is, fifteen years.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > curse</h1>
In the process of exploring the mausoleum, Carter found a large number of rare treasures including the pharaonic gold mask, the golden seat, the cabinet where tutankhamun's internal organs were placed, the mummy's internal organs were to be put separately, otherwise the mummies would be easy to rot, and the alabaster jars with internal organs were easily decayed, and these heads were actually carved chairs with the lids of the jars, as well as a chariot wrapped in gold, and other treasures, when the treasure came into view, the god of death also came, it is said that when Carter came to Tutankhamun's coffin, The first thing I saw was a passage that translated to the effect that" was: "Whoever disturbs the peace of Pharaoh, the god of death with its wings spread will descend upon him", "I am the defender of Tutankhamun, and I am the one who drives out the tomb robbers with the fire of the desert.".
But the long hours of labor and tight nerves have exhausted everyone, and everyone has ignored these warnings, and the excited players have left their fears behind. Another passage was later found next to the coffin. This is the second curse, which reads: "Anyone who enters the cemetery with a bad heart will be pinched by me in the throat". But in order for the excavation to go smoothly, Carter did not publish the results of the translation. However, no one knew that Pharaoh's punishment came so quickly that on the day tutankhamun's coffin was opened, a mosquito bit into the face of the great gold lord Lord Carnavon, after which Carnavon suffered from scurvony, he developed a high fever and lost his teeth.
In late March, When Carnavon's fever rose to 40 degrees and lasted for 12 days, Lord's doctors said he had cut a wound while shaving his beard and caused the infection, and on March 20, Carnavon's wife informed Carter that Carnavon was suffering from scurvy and carter rushed to Cairo. At 2 a.m. on April 4, Kanafon, who had been in a coma for more than 10 hours, died at that moment, and the whole of Cairo suddenly fell into darkness and continued to lose power for 5 minutes. His dog far away in England also died at the same time, but the information I found showed that the mansion was not Lord Carnavon's but Howard Carter's.
The doctor who examined Tutankhamun's mummy said that the mummy also had a scar on the left cheek, exactly the same location where Kanafon was bitten, and in this way, "Lord Kanafon became the first person to be cursed by the pharaoh to ask for his life". From then on, the curse of the pharaoh seemed to have been fulfilled, and in the following years, dozens of people associated with Tutankhamun died one after another, and shortly after Lord Carnavon's death, the American railroad giant George Jade, after visiting Tutankhamun's mausoleum, launched a high fever for no reason and died suddenly that night, in March 1926, the French Egyptologist George Berneditt also fell to his death after visiting the mausoleum, and the Same Year died also of the British industrialist Joe Wooll. Professor Burt Deley, the first anatomist to unravel the Shroud of the Pharaoh, and two of Carter's most important assistants also died, a South African billionaire who inexplicably fell from a yacht and drowned in the Nile after visiting the site of Tutankhamun's mausoleum, and an archaeologist Dr. Prin Horvat committed suicide a few days after leaving Tutankhamun's mausoleum, leaving behind the last words: "I left this world because of the curse of the pharaoh", also in 1929, The wife of the first victim, Lord Carnavon, Lady Mina, also died mysteriously.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > one death after another</h1>
It is said that she was also bitten by a poisonous mosquito and died the whole process, and even the part of the poisonous mosquito bite was exactly the same as the husband who died 6 years ago on the left cheek, as of 1929, there had been 22 people directly or indirectly related to the Tutankhamun Mausoleum who had died, but the curse of the pharaoh did not disappear, and in 1966, Egypt decided to hold an exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures in Paris at the request of France. To satisfy people's curiosity, an important part of this is the treasure in the tomb of Tutankhamun, and Muhammad Abraham, egypt's official in charge of antiquities, had a bizarre dream before the exhibition. In the dream, he was warned that if he kept Tutankhamun's treasure away from Egypt, he would die, and as a native egyptian, Muhammad had a natural fear of the boiling "curse" theory. Therefore, he repeatedly complained to his superiors, trying to prevent tutankhamun's treasure from traveling. However, the decision had been made, his reasons seemed weak, and in the end, he had to sign the document to agree that just as he was leaving the meeting at the end of the signing meeting, he was hit by a car, seriously injured and unconscious, and died two days later.
In 1972, the Tutankhamun treasure was to be exhibited in Britain with other Egyptian artifacts, and just as workers began to pack the artifacts in the Cairo Museum in turn, the 52-year-old Director of the Cairo Museum, Jamel Mehrair, died suddenly. It is the curator we mentioned earlier at the beginning, the terrible curse seems to have no end, so does the so-called curse really exist?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > cursed mystery</h1>
To unravel the mystery, we must start with the Pharaoh's Mausoleum, where a medical professor in Cairo conducts regular physical examinations of many archaeologists and staff of the museum, and he finds that all those who have been examined have a virus that causes respiratory inflammation and high fever. The virus is particularly tenacious, surviving on mummies for four thousand years, and the carriers of this poison are bats that are accustomed to living in the dark, and scientists speculate that the ancient Egyptians deliberately smeared this virus on mummies to protect the tombs of the pharaohs, and the text in the coffin is a warning to them.
An example that can be used to confirm this hypothesis is that in 1956, when the geographer Wiles was digging an ancient tomb in the mountains of Rhodesia, a group of bats besieged him after being bitten by this group of bats, and he contracted an unheard-of serious illness, thanks to the timely medical treatment, he survived. Of course, the corpse poison that has been confirmed to exist is also listed as one of the "killers", so modern archaeologists will wear protective clothing when they first enter the burial chamber, as well as masks, gloves and many other pharaonic tombs, including part of the pyramid is made of radioactive stone.
Perhaps, the ancient Egyptians had discovered the effects of radioactive material and used it to protect the peace of the pharaoh's remains. For example, some ore contains high purity uranium elements, ore may also be unintentionally used to build the material of the tomb, when this toxic heavy metal invades the human body, it is easy to cause death at the same time, psychological pressure is also considered to be an important factor leading to tragedy, digging ancient tombs is full of controversy, not to mention that this is thousands of years of pharaonic tombs, dark tombs Pharaoh's curse, and the natural fear of the cemetery are deepening people's sense of guilt, for people with weak will, Psychological stress often causes illness and psychological problems if overwhelmed, although many people die because of the tomb, howard Carter, as the "initiator" of the excavation of Tutankhamun's mausoleum, has never been affected by the "curse". He lived peacefully for another 27 years after the excavation of Tutankhamun's mausoleum, and during this 27 years Carter discovered and excavated the mausoleum of Hatshepsut Thutmose IV. He was the longest surviving gravedigger to die in England in 1939 at the age of 66, and Carter's longevity became the strongest evidence to break the rumors of the curse.