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| 'Curse of the Pharaohs' |
The Curse of the Pharaohs
refers to an alleged curse believed by some to be cast upon any person who
disturbs the mummy of an ancient Egyptian person…especially a pharaoh...this
curse, which does not draw any kind of line between common grave robbing
thieves or egg-headed archaeologists, allegedly can cause misfortune, illness
or death…many writers and documentaries have said that the curse is 'real' in
the sense of being caused by scientifically explicable causes…causes such as
bacteria or radiation…such stories as the disturbance of a site of the dead and
their ramifications remain fascinating…
Here are some deaths
popularly attributed to ‘curses’…
Note that the tomb was
opened in November of 1922…
Lord Carnarvon, a
financial backer of the excavation team was present at the tomb's opening…he
died in April of 1923 after a seemingly simple mosquito bite became infected;
he died 4 months and 7 days after the opening of the tomb…then there was the
most unfortunate Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey of Egypt who died in July of 1923
when he was shot dead by his wife…a Colonel Herbert, who happened to be
Carnarvon's half-brother, became nearly blind and died in September 1923 from
blood poisoning…Sir Archibald Douglas-Reid who was the radiologist that x-rayed
Tutankhamun's mummy, died in January of 1924 from a ‘mysterious’ illness…Sir
Lee Stack, Governor-General of Sudan, died in November of 1924: assassinated
while driving through Cairo…a member of the excavation team, died in 1928 from
arsenic poisoning…George Jay Gould I, a mere visitor to the tomb, succumbed in
May 1923 after he developed a high fever following his visit…there are these and
other suspicious deaths that have occurred and cannot be denied by
‘science’…there are occasional instances when genuine curses appeared inside or
on the façade of a tomb warning others not to open them…but these men of
science proceeded and some paid with their lives.
