The royal cobra (uraeus), representing the protective goddess Dajet, is the apex of Tutankhamun's mask
Curse of the Pharaohs (Curse of King Tutankhamun)
The Curse of the Pharaohs refers to the belief that anyone disturbing the mummy of an ancient Egyptian, especially if he were a pharaoh, he should be a curse. This curse that does not differentiate between thieves and well-intentioned archaeologists has caused bad luck, illness, or death. Since the mid-twentieth century, many have discussed The book and documentary films that curse stemming from explanatory scientific reasons such as bacteria or radiation. However, the modern origins of Egyptian tales of the mummy curse are primarily in European cultures, and the shift from magic to science to explain curses, and to change their uses from the disruption of the dead to the amusement of the masses in A horror movie, indicating that the Egyptian curses are primarily a cultural and not exclusively scientific phenomenon.
There are occasional cases of real ancient curses appearing inside or on the façade of a tomb, as is the case for the mastaba (an ancient Egyptian burial) from Khentika, my brother from the sixth dynasty at Saqqara. They appear to be a direct directive toward priests to carefully protect the tomb and maintain ritual purity rather than warning against possible thieves. Although there are stories of curses dating back to the nineteenth century, they multiplied in the wake of Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. Despite popular misconceptions, there was no true linear curse present in the tomb of Pharaoh. Evidence for such curses related to King Tutankhamun has been considered to be so insignificant that it is viewed as a "pure applause trap" by Donald Redford.
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Tutankhamun
The myth of the curse of the pharaohs began at the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 AD and the first thing that caught their attention was inscriptions saying: "Death will strike with the wings of the two people who disturb the king's peace." This is the phrase found inscribed on the tomb of Tutankhamun, which was followed by a series of strange incidents that began with death. Many workers searching the cemetery, which baffled scientists and people, and made many believe in what was called "the curse of the pharaohs," and among them some archaeologists who participated in the discovery of the civilizations of the pharaohs, that the ancient Egyptian priests cast their curse on anyone trying to transfer these relics From its place .. where it was said that a strong sandstorm erupted around the tomb of Tutankhamun on the day it was opened and a falcon was seen flying over the cemetery, and it is known that the falcon is one of the sacred symbols of the pharaohs. But there is a German scientist who opened the file of this phenomenon, which occupied many, to explain to us with reason, medicine and chemistry, how forty scientists and researchers died before it was too late, and the reason was that young king .. Tutankhamun .. Although this king had no historical value, and perhaps he was a ruler, he did not He does a lot..Perhaps in the era of a counter-revolution against King Akhenaten, he was the first to call for monotheism .. But it is certain that this young king derived his great importance from the fact that his tomb was untouched by any of the thieves .. so it reached us after thirty-three centuries completely unscathed and that this The king is also the source of the Pharaonic curse, so all those who touched him or touched him were chased by death one after the other, recording that impressed and strangest what a person knew in terms of punishment .. The clear thing is that these forty died .. But the mysterious thing is that death is for very trivial reasons and in incomprehensible circumstances Scientists could not explain it scientifically and clearly.
Tutankhamun, the owner of the cemetery, the coffin and the curses, ruled Egypt for nine years from 1358 to 1349 BC. His tomb was discovered by Howard Carter, and years of torment, sweat and despair began. On November 6, 1922, Howard went to Lord Carnarvon, saying to him, “Finally, I discovered something wonderful in the Valley of the Kings, and you have closed the cover on the doors and the basement until you come yourself to see and the Lord came to Luxor on the 23rd November and his daughter accompanied him .. Howard advanced and broke the seals and doors .. one after the other .. until he was a short distance from the burial room of King Tutankhamun. The curse story began with the golden canary bird that Carter carried with him when he came to Luxor .. And when the tomb was discovered At first they called it "The Golden Sparrow Cemetery" .. It was stated in his book "Theft of the King" by Mohsen Muhammad ... that when Howard traveled to Cairo to be received by the Lord, then his assistant put the bird on the balcony to enjoy the breeze of the air .. And on the day the cemetery opened, Callender heard a distress Weak as if it was a signal cry, then hurry to find a cobra snake extending its tongue to the bird inside the cage .. And the caller of the snake was killed, but the bird was dead..and immediately it was said that the 'curse' began with the opening of the cemetery as the cobra snake is found on the crown that is placed above the heads of statues of kings Egypt .. and uh This was the beginning of the king's revenge against those who disturbed him in his shrine.
On the other hand, archaeologist Henry guides that something terrible will happen on the way, but what happened after that was a strange thing that, with the passage of time, turned into a supernatural phenomenon and one of the mysterious things that caused a lot of controversy and which science has not found an explanation for to this day This .. In the official celebration of the inauguration of the cemetery, Muhammad Zakaria was infected with a mysterious fever for which none of the doctors found an explanation .. At midnight completely, Muhammad Zakaria died in Cairo .. And the strangest thing is that the electrical current was cut off in Cairo for no apparent reason. The same moment of death, and the world newspapers highlighted the news of the death of Muhammad Zakaria .. And the Cairo newspapers linked the death of Muhammad Zakaria and the lights off and claimed that this was done by King Tut’s order, and some newspapers said that Muhammad Zakaria’s finger was wounded by a poisoned instrument or spear inside the cemetery and that the poison is strong as evidence It preserved its influence for three thousand years .. She said that a kind of bacteria grew inside the cemetery carrying disease and death, and in Paris the astronomer Lancelan said .. Tutankhamun has avenged.
The curse of King Tutankhamun
The belief in the curse aroused the interest of many people due to the mysterious deaths of some members of Howard Carter's team and other prominent visitors to the grave shortly thereafter. Carter's team opened the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62) in 1922, ushering in the new era of Egyptology. Famous Egyptologist James Henry Breasted worked with Carter shortly after the cemetery was first opened. I report how Carter sent a messenger to take care of his home. On his way back to his home, he thought he heard a faint sound that resembled someone's crying, and saw upon reaching the entrance a bird cage occupied by a cobra, the symbol of the Egyptian monarchy. Canary Carter died on his mouth and this fueled local rumors of the curse. Arthur Weigel, the former inspector general of Egyptian government antiquities, reported that this was the explanation that Carter's house was broken into by the same royal cobra protecting the king's head to strike enemies on the same day that the king's grave was broken .. Reports of this incident were reported in the New York Times on 22nd December 1922: The first mysterious death was Lord Carnarvon. He was bitten by a mosquito, and later while he was accidentally flying the sting wound. Then he became infected, which led to blood poisoning. Two weeks before Carnavon's death, Marie Corelli wrote a fictional letter to New York World magazine, quoting from a mysterious book that asserted that "terrible punishment" would be inflicted upon the intruder of the sealed tomb. A media revolution followed, with reports that a curse was found on the king's grave, but this is not true. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the character of Sherlock Holmes, suggested at that time that the death of Carnarvon occurred due to the presence of "elements" placed by the priests of Tutankhamun to protect the royal tomb, and this contributed to the increased media interest. Arthur stated that, 6 weeks before the death of Carnarvon, he saw him laughing and making jokes when he entered the king's tomb and watched him say to a close correspondent (HF Mortan), "I will give him six weeks to live." The first autopsy of King Tutankhamun's body by Dr. Derry found a healed scar On the king's left cheek, but since Carnarvon was buried six months before this it was not possible to determine whether the location of the wound on the king was identical to the deadly mosquito bite of Carnarvon. In 1925, the anthropologist Henryfield accompanied by Breasted Shrine pointed out Wood Carter's kindness. He also reported how a paperweight given to Carter's friend Sir Bruce Ingham from a mummified hand with a wrist and bracelet bearing the sign of Cursed could move my body. He must come to him with fire, water, and pestilence. Shortly after receiving the gift, Ingram's house burned down, then followed by a flood as it was rebuilt. Howard Carter was completely suspicious of curses. He quoted in his diary “The Stranger” explaining that in May 1926 he saw a jackal of the same type of Anubis, the keeper of the dead, for the first time in more than thirty-five years of working in the desert. Skeptics noted that many of those who visited or helped discover the grave lived long and healthy lives. The study showed that of the 85 people who were present when the tomb and the coffin were opened, only eight were killed in ten years. The others were all alive, including Howard Carter, who later died of lymphoma at the age of 64 in 1939.
Cases of death attributed to the curse of Tutankhamun
The tomb was opened on the twenty-ninth of February 1922, Lord Carnarvon, who was the financial supporter of the excavation team, was present during the opening of the tomb, he died on April 5, 1923 CE, after being bitten by a mosquito and infecting him, he died 4 months and 7 days after the tomb was opened. George Jay Gould I died in the French Riviera on May 16, 1923, after having developed a fever after visiting the tomb. The Egyptian Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy died on July 10, 1923, when he was shot dead by his wife. Respected Colonel Aubrey Herbert, Member of Parliament, who is Carnarvon's half-brother, became completely blind and died on September 26, 1923, due to blood poisoning by a dental operation aimed at restoring his eyesight. Wolf Goel, a millionaire and tomb visitor from South Africa, was shot dead in Johannesburg on November 13, 1923 CE, murdered by racketeer Baron Kurt von Geltime, whose real name was Karl Friedrich Moritz Kurtzi. Sir Archibald Douglas-Reid, the physician who performed the x-rays of Tutankhamun's mummy, died on January 15, 1924 from a mysterious illness. Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of Sudan, died on November 19, 1924, assassinated while driving in Cairo. Arthur Cruttenden Mace - A. C. Mace, a member of Carter's exploration team, died in 1928 of arsenic poisoning. Reverend Mervyn Herbert, half-brother of Carnarvon and brother-in-law of the aforementioned Aubrey Herbert, died on May 25, 1929, according to reports, due to "malaria pneumonia". Respected Commander Richard Bethell, Carter's personal secretary, died on November 15, 1929, after an attic was found strangled in his bed. Richard Lachral Pilkington Pathal, the third baron of Westbury, a father of whom was mentioned above, died on February 20, 1930 AD, presumably he threw himself from the seventh floor of his apartment. Howard Carter opened a cemetery on February 16, 1923 AD, and later died more than a decade later on March 2, 1939 AD, yet some still instruct the cause of his death to be a curse.
