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The curse of the pharaohs or the mummy's curse is a curse alleged to be cast upon anyone who disturbs the mummy of an ancient Egyptian, especially a pharaoh. This curse, which does not differentiate between thieves and archaeologists, is claimed to cause bad luck, illness, or death.
[110] [111] This fictional trope came to be known as the "mummy's curse" or "curse of the pharaohs". [112] The real-life stories of Walter Ingram, who died in 1888 after purchasing an Egyptian mummy, and of a coffin lid called the " Unlucky Mummy ", which was purported to cause a variety of misfortunes, cemented the idea of the curse in the ...
The Mummy's Curse is a 1944 American horror film directed by Leslie Goodwins. Produced by Universal Pictures, it is the fifth entry in Universal's original Mummy franchise, serving as a sequel to The Mummy's Ghost (1944). It marks Lon Chaney Jr.'s final appearance as Kharis, an Egyptian mummy.
A recent display of mummies in Mexico serves as a reminder to the scientific explanation of the so-called “mummy’s curse.” At Long Last, Scientists Have Explained the Deadly Mummy's Curse ...
This notion of a curse was so influential that after Lord Carnarvon’s death, Benito Mussolini, who had a gifted mummy on display, ordered its removal to avoid a brutal death at the hands of an ...
An ancient Egyptian mummy who was found wearing a black wig and had a “screaming” face may have died wailing in pain around 3,000 years ago, scientists believe.
Encouraged by newspaper speculation, [32] [37] the ‘Curse of Tutankhamun’, or the ‘Mummy's Curse’ entered into popular culture and was fuelled further by the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's suggestion that Carnarvon's death had been caused by ‘elementals’ created by Tutankhamun's priests to guard the royal tomb. [38]
Roughly 3,500 years after her burial, the 'screaming woman' mummy has been re-examined with the latest research tech. Researchers uncover new details in 'screaming woman' mummy buried 3,500 years ...