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"Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the King, and this shall be his fate: To be judged before the God Anubis, in the presence of Osiris, Lord of Eternity; whose word is truth. And if he has done no wrong, then he shall be acquitted by Osiris and his son Horus; but if he has committed any crime against them, then may they judge him according to that which he has done."
This curse was written in hieroglyphics on coffins or tombs to frighten off anyone who would dare to break into them.
The curse of the pharaohs is a curse that was supposed to be used against anyone who would disturb the mummy of a pharaoh.
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Within months of the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the man who funded the excavation, the Earl of Carnarvon in England, fell ill - and died, it didn't take long for people to wonder if the "curse of the pharaohs" had wiped out the man.
Newspapers were interested in what happened at the time, so the headline "Pharaoh's 3,000-year-old curse causes Carnarvon disease" on the front page of the March 21, 1923 edition of "The Courier Journal", a newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky, according to the website. "live science".
Similar headlines appeared in newspapers around the world as news spread of Carnarvon's illness and death and some said he suffered from an infection reportedly caused by a mosquito bite.
Carnarvon was funding the search and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb when Howard Carter found the tomb in November 1922, they ventured into the tomb, and saw the "wonderful" artifacts buried with Tutankhamun.
While the idea of "Curse" may seem silly, it has been seriously studied by scientists, with several research papers published on the topic. In an effort to determine whether a long-lived pathogen caused the 'curse', scientists used mathematical modeling to determine how long a pathogen could remain inside a grave, according to papers published on the topic in 1996 and 1998 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society. .
"Indeed, the mysterious death of Lord Carnarvon after entering the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun can probably be explained by the infection of a highly virulent pathogen," wrote Sylvain Gandon in a 1998 newspaper article.
However, more recent publications seem to refute this possibility. An analysis of brown spots on Tutankhamun's tomb found that "the organism that created the spots is inactive," a team of researchers wrote in a 2013 paper published in the journal International Biodeteration & Biodegradation.
In addition, a study published by Mark Nelson, professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at Monash University in Australia, found no evidence that those who entered the cemetery died at an unusually early age, and his study examined the records of 25 people who worked or went to the grave after a time short of discovering it. The people who entered the cemetery lived to be 70, according to the study, a lifespan that was not particularly low in the early to mid-20th century, and Nelson wrote in a research paper published in 2002 in the British Medical Journal, that the study found "no evidence to support the existence of the curse of the pharaohs." .
In fact, the idea of linking the discovery of a mummy to a curse predates the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. "The curse is a legend that has gradually evolved, since the mid-nineteenth century, and has gradually grown with the cumulative contributions of fiction literature, horror films, news media and more recently the Internet," said Yasmine Day, Egyptologist, Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and author of The Curse of the Mummy: A Mummy in the English-Speaking World (Routledge, 2006).
Other scholars have agreed that the association of curses and magic with mummies was widespread before the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The ancient Egyptians were credited with all kinds of supernatural knowledge.
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The Egyptian scientist Zahi Hawass talked a lot about the absence of a curse for the pharaohs, and he considered this matter a myth.
Hawass repeated what he had previously said that the curse of the pharaoh was a "myth", and justified the spread of this legend to the British press.
And he continued, "If the curse affected anyone, I would have personally been the first to suffer, but over the course of my work in archeology, I did not suffer any harm that can be traced back to the curse of the pharaohs."
Hawass denied that the injury that occurred to him in the eye years ago was due to the curse, adding: "The story of this injury is that I was excavating to discover Cleopatra's tomb, and a stone fell from a close distance on my head, and it caused a problem with my eyes, and surgery was performed in the states. The United States at the expense of the state, and thank God, this crisis has passed.”
He stressed that the occurrence of injuries when discovering the Pharaonic tombs is very likely because of the bad air trapped inside a closed place for thousands of years, and therefore there are some procedures that must be followed when dealing with these discoveries, as they are opened for a period of two days until the corrupt air is expelled from inside, and the There is a great deal of security when entering it.
He adds, "If the specialists did not follow these instructions when opening the pharaonic tombs and fell ill or died, then would we say that the curse of the pharaohs is the reason?"
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So what do you think about it ?
Is there a Real Curse or not ?