A 3,000-year-old curse?
"Cursed be those that disturb the rest of Pharaoh." These chilling words supposedly formed the inscription that greeted Howard Carter and his team in 1922 when they uncovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, around 3,000 years after the monarch's demise.
Egyptologists have dismissed the idea of a curse but that hasn’t stopped the legend of King Tut’s wrath from enduring for around a century.
From sudden illnesses to mysterious house fires, the people involved in the discovery suffered a multitude of misfortune in the months and years that followed. Read on to uncover their unbelievable stories, and decide for yourself if the curse is real or not. All dollar values in US dollars.
Alice Cattley
18 July 2022
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