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A new documentary has explored the belief that whoever opens the grave of one of the pharaohs will be harmed by an ancient curse. So what's the truth? A combination of Pike News and a conflict between journalists


The curse of the tombs of the pharaohs - the surprising truth is revealed

A new documentary explores the belief that whoever opens the grave of one of the pharaohs will be harmed by an ancient curse, and the claim that many of those who participated in the expedition that opened the tomb of Tut Anach Amun were found dead quickly.

So what's the truth?

A combination of Pike News and a conflict between journalists

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Monday, 20 June 2022, 10:59 Updated: 11:49

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For thousands of years the pharaohs were quietly buried in the Valley of the Kings on the bank of the vast Nile River in Egypt.

Since then, 64 tombs have been opened, the most famous of which is the tomb of Tut Anach Amun, which was discovered in 1922.

In those days the stories of the curse of the pharaohs began to emerge - the belief that whoever opened the tomb of one of the pharaohs would be harmed by an ancient curse imposed by the Egyptian clergy when a disturbance was buried in his tomb.

So what is the truth behind the curse and who started it?

The big answer is - Pike News and a conflict between journalists.



Channel 4's film Tutankhamon: Secrets of The Tomb aired Sunday in the UK in which anthropologist Ella El Samhi talks to experts on the curse, Pharaoh and delegation of Lord Howard Carter who discovered the tomb in 1922.

According to her findings, Arthur Vigal, an Egyptologist who became a Daily Mail reporter, was the man who apparently started the curse story because he was nervous that a Times reporter's reporter had exclusive access to the discovery of Tut Anach Amun's grave. So he invented the curse story and made it a familiar one.

One of the experts interviewed for the film, Bob Bianchi, said: "Arthur Vigal is a very interesting person. He was certified as an Egyptologist but then changed direction in a sense, and became a journalist. He worked for the Daily Mail, which was a competitor of the London Times, and he was not Able to get the scientific information from Carter on a daily basis because the Times had exclusivity, so he should have been able to provide his readers with a parallel story. "

The solution he found - Pike News according to which a curse was placed on anyone who enters the grave and he finds his death.



It all started a hundred years before you, in the 1920s, when Egyptian hieroglyphs were first deciphered properly.

Curse and death wishes were discovered on the walls of the Egyptian tombs, intended to deter tomb robbers - but most of the time they did not succeed.

About a century later, the tomb of Tutankhamun was found in a delegation funded by the British aristocrat Lord Carnerbon.



The new documentary depicts Lord Carnarbon being very amused and joking while entering the tomb and according to Bob Bianchi's testimony "I think what Vigal said was that Lord Carnarbon was too happy and sinned in the sin of pride, then the Daily Mail reporter allegedly said: 'If Lord Carnarbon enters the grave in the mood This one, he will die in six weeks. "



Surprisingly, within six weeks Lord Carnerbon and a number of other people who worked with him in the excavation, were found dead.

"For the newspapers, these exotic deaths were a gold mine and they started making up more and more stories about the curse of Strawberry Anach Amun," the documentary said, "they were hungry for stories, and reporters added more names to the dead list."



As part of the documentary the creator decided to look at the curse from a scientific point of view.

"There was a lot of hysteria at the time," she tells The New Arab.

"The press raged,

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So what is the scientific explanation for the deaths?

"We found out that the victims may have died from an infection," she said.

Indeed, on April 5, 1923, the lord's body was found at the Continental Savoy Hotel in Cairo.

Although his death spawned the story of the "Curse of the Strawberry", also known as the "Curse of the Pharaohs", his death was probably due to sepsis (which developed into pneumonia) as a result of accidentally shaving a rose mosquito bite, which caused the wound to open and serious infection. .



Among the explanations given for the phenomenon was the fact that the conditions in the tombs found endangered the health of those who visited them - dark and suffocating spaces.

One of the allegations was that the cause of death was a fungus that grew at the site of the graves and became infected with investigators.

In an article published in the press at the time, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hypothesized that a mold fungus was deliberately placed to punish grave robbers.



High levels of ammonia, formalin and hydrogen sulfide were detected in air samples taken from a closed sarcophagus through a drilled hole;

These gases are toxic, and some of the gases found - such as nerve gas - can impair the health of the person breathing them.

Today, archaeologists wear a kind of protective mask when entering places with graves because they are aware that in such places there is bacterial activity that can penetrate open wounds and spread infection among them.



It should be remembered that despite the belief in the curse, most of those who attended the opening of the tomb did not die in later years, and some even lasted.

According to Wikipedia, explanations such as poisonous fungus and toxic gases do not explain why none of the 10 people who removed the shrouds from the mummy died in later years.

In addition, some of the deaths linked to the affair occurred for reasons that could not be linked to poisoning.

Thus, for example, a French archaeologist fell during the visit and died of his wounds.

An X-ray technician sent to inspect the mummy died before reaching his destination.

And the father of Carnerbon's secretary, committed suicide.

Even the discoverer of the tomb itself, Carter, died only in 1939 at the age of 64 from lymphoma.

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