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What is the Tutankhamun curse?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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Howard Carter entered the burial chamber of Tutankhamun on 17 February 1923. On 6 March, Lord Carnarvon (his financial backer) was bitten by a mosquito. The bite became infected and he died on 5 April. Rumors began to spread that the curse of Tutankhamun's tomb had claimed its first victim. According to Christine el-Mahdy, it was the Arab peoples of Egypt in the first century AD who were the first to suggest that a mummy could come to life and attack anyone who broke into a pharaohs tomb. This idea remained popular partly because the Ancient Egyptian language and culture had long since been suppressed and so there was no-one to correct this misunderstanding. When Carvarvon died following the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the notion of a curse was revitalized (but without the reanimation of the mummy).

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There was a belief that the curse of King Tut's tomb was that people would die naturally, but before their time.

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12y ago

no the guy that found him died from diseas from a bug king tuts tomb is not cursed

don't beleave what oter people say

thanks Dylan ;p :)

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There is no curse. It was result of an overactive imagination amongst the media when Lord Caenarvon died soon after the tomb was opened.

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tuts curse was some thing like if you were to open the door of the tomb you would be cursed the first sighn is a black snake so that's what i heard

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When Carter first found the tomb, he was bitten by a mosquito and developed malaria. He died of this. Two others on the expedition also died.

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they say there is but no that's not true

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Yes there is a curse on Tutankhamuns tomb

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No it not true

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