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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.
A popular belief holds that a curse would befall the disturber of any mummy predated Tut's discovery, according to National Geographic. But the legendary curse gained special attention with the ...
[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 ...
In 1992, German toxicologist Svetlana Balabanova discovered traces of cocaine, hashish and nicotine on Henut Taui's hair as well as on the hair of several other mummies of the museum, [5] which is significant [2] in that the only source for cocaine and nicotine had at that time been considered to be the coca and tobacco plants native to the Americas, and were not thought to have been present ...
X-ray scans have finally unravelled the mystery of how a famous ancient Egyptian “locked mummy” was placed inside a coffin with seemingly no entry point.. Out of the over dozen Egyptian ...
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 ...
The name 'Unlucky Mummy' is misleading as the artifact is not a mummy at all, but rather a gessoed and painted wooden 'mummy-board' or inner coffin lid. It was found at Thebes and can be dated by its shape and the style of its decoration to the late 21st or early 22nd Dynasty (c 950–900 BC). In the British Museum it is known by its serial ...
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. ... and the mummy’s well ...