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- Much Ado About Nothing: Examining The Curse Of Tutankhamun
Student Pulse (Sujay Kulshrestha) 2012, Vol. 4 No.06 Tutankhamun Ancient Egypt Myth Curse Of the Pharaoh In the early part of the 20th century, the world experienced tumultuous change. At the turn of the century, advances in technology linked humans around...
- Book Review: Tutankhamen’s Curse
The Lancet PDF (Andrew Robinson) The opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt in 1922 by Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon is the most famous archaeological discovery of all time, with the possible exception of the excavation of Pompeii in the...
- It Wouldn't Be Hallowe'en Without The Curse Of Tutankhamun
'The Curse of Tutankhamun' Redeaux News Blaze John Kays A pro-curse article which argues that the Tutankhamun curse is alive and kicking and giving him strange feelings at the Tutankhamun exhibtiion. The curse a result of ancient bacteria? Firefox...
- Tutankhamun Curse: Curse: Fact Or Fiction?
http://www.newsok.com/article/2951598/?template=entertainment/main"Press reports claimed a dire warning carved into the walls of Tut's tomb foretold the British lord's demise. In reality, no such warning existed. Indeed, very few curses have been...
- Zahi Hawass On Kv63
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/796/hr3.htmZahi Hawass's Dig Days column pulls no punches again this week: "Before the discovery of KV 63, the Valley of the Kings had been silent for 83 years, three months and six days since the magical day when Howard...
Egypt
The Curse of the Pharaohs: Truth, Myth or Microbiology?
Firefox News (Tracy Morris)
For only the second time since their discovery, some of the treasures of Tutankhamen are visiting United States Soil. Wherever they go, the treasures of Tutankhamen inspire wonder. But when they were first discovered in 1922 they also inspired a little bit of fear – fear of a pharaoh’s curse.
The idea of a pharaoh’s curse didn’t originate with King Tut. The tombs of many pharaohs have carried warnings against thieves who would steal – a common and significant problem in Egypt, where ancient Egyptians buried their royalty with treasures in the belief that the wealth could be taken into the afterlife.
But as the discovery of the undisturbed tomb of “the boy king” created mummy mania around the world, a kind of morbid fascination with curses fueled rumors that the archeologists who opened King Tut’s tomb would soon meet with mysterious fates.
Journalists reporting on the find weren’t above embellishing the truth in an effort to tell a good story. Before the tomb was formally opened, reporters were filling their dispatches with accounts that the pharaoh’s seal contained warnings of death coming on swift wings.
But the morbid fascination with the mummy’s curse really took off several months later with the death of Lord Carnarvon, the expedition’s chief financier.
See the above page for the full story.
- Much Ado About Nothing: Examining The Curse Of Tutankhamun
Student Pulse (Sujay Kulshrestha) 2012, Vol. 4 No.06 Tutankhamun Ancient Egypt Myth Curse Of the Pharaoh In the early part of the 20th century, the world experienced tumultuous change. At the turn of the century, advances in technology linked humans around...
- Book Review: Tutankhamen’s Curse
The Lancet PDF (Andrew Robinson) The opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt in 1922 by Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon is the most famous archaeological discovery of all time, with the possible exception of the excavation of Pompeii in the...
- It Wouldn't Be Hallowe'en Without The Curse Of Tutankhamun
'The Curse of Tutankhamun' Redeaux News Blaze John Kays A pro-curse article which argues that the Tutankhamun curse is alive and kicking and giving him strange feelings at the Tutankhamun exhibtiion. The curse a result of ancient bacteria? Firefox...
- Tutankhamun Curse: Curse: Fact Or Fiction?
http://www.newsok.com/article/2951598/?template=entertainment/main"Press reports claimed a dire warning carved into the walls of Tut's tomb foretold the British lord's demise. In reality, no such warning existed. Indeed, very few curses have been...
- Zahi Hawass On Kv63
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/796/hr3.htmZahi Hawass's Dig Days column pulls no punches again this week: "Before the discovery of KV 63, the Valley of the Kings had been silent for 83 years, three months and six days since the magical day when Howard...