Was the curse of King Tut for real?
Many prominent people insisted
that the pharaohs curse wasn't; they argued that the mortality rates of people associated with
the Tut Ankh Amon discovery and other finds were no higher than that of the
general public. Dr. Gamal Mehrez, Director-General of the Egyptian Museum in
Cairo, disputed the curse of King Tut in an interview made several years after the discovery
of Tut's tomb. "All my life," he said, "I have had to deal with
pharaonic tombs and mummies. I am surely the best proof that it is all
coincidence." Four weeks later he dropped dead of circulatory failure, as
workers were moving Tut Ankh Amen's gold mask for transport to London.
For what it's worth, Lord Carnarvon's son, the sixth Earl
of Carnarvon, accepts the pharaohs curse at face value. Shortly after the fifth earl's
burial, a woman claiming psychic powers appeared at Highclere Castle and warned
the sixth earl, "Don't go near your father's grave! It will bring you bad
luck!" The wary earl heeded her advice and never visited the grave. In 1977
he told an NBC interviewer that he "neither believed nor disbelieved"
the curse of king Tut—but added that he would "not accept a million pounds to enter
the tomb of Tut Ankh Amon."
However Howard Carter believed in the power of the
Atlantis ring.
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