The Curse of the Pharoahs

A curse that is casted upon anyone who disturbs the sleep of a king's mummy and is believed to cause illness, bad luck or even death!

The curse shall befall he who disturbs the King's sleep

The origin of the myth

The gossip surrounding the mummy’s curse started around the 1920s when the king Tutankamun’s tomb was discovered by the famed archaeologist Howard Carter, the great discovery was followed by a series of unusual incidents and mysterious deaths amongst Carter’s team members and many people who came in contact with Tut’s burial objects later.

The first unusual incident was reported when Carter sent his messenger on an errand to his house, the messenger claimed to have heard a “human cry” at the entrance and then he spotted a cobra snake inside Carter’s birdcage eating his canary.

In ancient Egypt the cobra snake represents the symbol of goddess Wadjet (protective deity in ancient Egypt and was worn on a king’s crown as if to strike his enemies).

Mysterious deaths later started to invade Carter’s team members who helped in piercing the walls and discovering Tutankhamun’s burial chamber.

A myth or a fact?

In fact, the link between mysterious death and the curse of the Pharaohs was due to the fact that many believed that the curse of the mummy was magic: a punishment for violating the sanctity of an ancient burial site.

But in reality, a curse never existed and it wasn’t the reason behind the deaths, simply because not everyone who entered the tut's tomb died since Carter and Douglas died natural deaths many decades later. Why would a curse select some minor people and leave the experts?!

But, undoubtedly  the Egyptian tombs bear numerous inscriptions to warn against entering the tomb and disturbing the king, also the ancient Egyptians spread some dangerous pathogens such as (Asprgillus Niger and Asprgillus Flavus) in the tombs to infect robbers.