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Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Curse Of King Tutankhamen's Tomb




Curse of King Tut’s Tomb

Is the curse of King Tutankhamen real? This spread around when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon had found King Tutankhamen’s tomb. The Egyptians believed that if you find a tablet with the curse in a pharaoh's tomb there would be lots of records of a variety of threats that would happen in sacred locations for example, As for anybody who shall enter this tomb in his impurity: I shall ring his neck like a bird’s. or As for him who shall destroy this inscription:He shall not reach home. He shall not embrace his children. He shall not see success.
After Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened the tomb and studied it, Lord Carnarvon became ill and had to be sent back to Cairo. Then a few days later he died. People said that he died because of the curse of King Tut’s Tomb. Different people studied the curse and came up that the curse was not true. Dr. Ezzeddin Taha examined the health records of several people that work in museums. The records showed that most of the workers had been exposed to Aspergillus Niger which is a fungus. The fungus was black mold. This black mold is a fungus that causes fevers,rashes and fatigues. Dr. Nicola Di Paola is an Italian physician. He examined the health records and found another possible fungus. This possible fungus was Aspergillus Ochraceus. At 1999, another man wanted to find out what other possible things that might have caused illness. The German man’s name was Gotthard Kramer. He found another possible thing that might have caused the illness of several people. He found mold spores. He thinks that when the tombs were first opened and fresh air went inside the tomb, the spores might have been blown in the air. He said that when the spores go through the nose,mouth or the eye, it can cause organ failure.


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By: Liezl Ceniza

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