Curse Of Pharaohs Research Paper

The first theory is that King Tut was murdered by his advisor. Aye, King Tut's advisor, may have wanted the throne for himself. After analyzing some evidence I found that King Tut had no blood relatives, so if he passed away the throne would go to his most trusted advisor, which was Aye. Further supporting my theory of Aye murdering Tut, was the message his wife sent to the Hittites, an enemy of Egypt. In the message she begged for them to send a prince to Egypt, possibly as a last resort so Aye will not become the king.

King Tut's died because he had a diseases on his left foot and he also had malaria a diseases an insect that carries. The scientists found out when they did a CT scan which occured in 2005. They found out that King Tut had a broken leg that never got healthy, these findings explain why he had to use 130 walking sticks and canes that were discovered with Tut's

The book tells us the story of the Egyptian Pharaoh, Thutmose III. It tells us about his childhood, accession to the throne, and also his military conquests. His childhood was not that of other children’s at the time, the book describes how children got more freedom and had more leisure time up to a certain age. In Thutmose’s case, he was sent to train as a priest of Amun. Something in which he embraced over the years. However, he didn't just practice in religion he also at a young age was put through harsh military training. It taught him skills in commanding men, and it also taught him tactics. The reason for these actions is because at the time he was born, Thutmose II had died and Thutmose III was too young to rule Egypt. So the queen Hatshepsut took control of Egypt and declared herself pharaoh.

What would technically be the first event in the so called curse would begin with carter himself. A famous egyptologist by the name of James Henry Breasted had begun to start working with his new colleague Howard Carter. He reported how Carter sent a messenger on an errand to his house. As the messenger arrived at Carters house, recalled hearing an almost human like cry. At the entrance of Carters house the messenger saw Carter's bird cage occupied by anything but a bird, but a cobra! Arthur Weigall stated this incident of the cobra breaking into the man's house as being a symbol of the royal cobra. This is also said to be the Cobra that King Tut wears to strike down his enemies (C. Frayling, the face of tutankhamun

The Mummy With the Curse Is the curse of breaking into King Tut’s tomb the cause of death to a dozen men or could it be coincidence? In egyptian times when a king would die they would be wrapped in cloth and put into a large coffin, it was believed that the mummies of ancient Egyptian persons, especially the Pharaohs were not to be disturbed and anyone who did that would face a curse. A curse of which anyone who broke into a Pharaoh's tomb would be cursed to serious illness or death. King Tut’s tomb should have never been entered and excavated because it is cursed, anyone who steals the young kings loot was cursed forever. King Tutankhamun (c. 1341 B.C.E. to c. 1323 B.C.E.),was the twelfth pharaoh of the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty.

The curse of King Tut is one of the most known curses in the world. The curse was placed upon the tomb of pharaohs. The main people who opened the tomb knew it was cursed but they opened the tomb anyway. Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon, Lord Westbury, Richard Bethell, and Reis Ahamed all of which were at the tomb when it was opened. Howard Carter who was an archaeologist who lived in England,Discovered the tomb. Lord Carnarvon was Carter's financier for the expedition. ”He watched as Carter made a hole in the door”(The Unmuseum).With Bethell, Westbury, and Ahmed who were standing behind him. The curse of King Tut normally brought death upon those who opened the tomb. It sometimes even killed friends or family of the people

The grave contained the cremated remains of the woman and displayed few signs of ritual libations. The archaeologists associated with Greece’s Ephorate for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities excavated the grave in 2003. Speaking about the significance of the tablet inside the grave, Lamont says that the curse tablets are supposed to be buried in an subterranean location such as a grave or well. The ancients believes that the underground locations acted as a bridge through which the curses reached the underworld Gods.

     Tutankhamen died before he was twenty, as his mummy shows, and was buried in the Valley of the Kings in a tomb that originally had been prepared for his advisor Ay. Tut left no heir to succeed him and an important and powerful official, Ay, became pharaoh. About ten years after his death, thieves broke into his tomb and ransacked the antechamber. But the tomb, resealed and eventually covered over with rubble, was not touched again until modern times-although by 1000BC every other sepulcher in the Valley had been robbed.

When the statement, “The great ones surround you.” This led me to believe that this pharaoh believed he’d become equal to the God, and would be one of the great ones to surround the God. Lastly, when the statement said, “The watchers will wait on you.” I took this to mean slaves in the afterlife, perhaps a sort of purgatory for less fortunate souls.

Q. What have heard from you grave, of Tuthmosis’ III attempt to rid your name of the records of Egypt? A. “I am yet to hear great detail of his outrageous actions, but I do know the basic outline. As pharaoh, Tuthmosis, was unhappy that, instead of just fulfilling my role as Regent before he took over as pharaoh I became pharaoh myself. When finally I was removed from his path of glory, he wanted immediately to erase all records of me and my role. Being the sly man he grew up to be, Tuthmosis calculated his every move before deciding on the perfect time to begin his destructive rampage.

As each plague was executed and spread all over the land, there is a pattern within the scripture, of Pharaoh asking for forgiveness or a compromise, but then hardening his heart once God showed mercy. “But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt” (Exodus 7:3). In the Plagues of Egypt, Moshe Greenberg theorizes that in the first five plagues, Pharaoh’s vile stubbornness is manifested from free will, and is self-motivated. However, from the sixth plague and on, God hardens his heart in order to punish him. By dominating Pharaoh’s heart and decision making, God was able to proclaim His name and glory throughout the world.

Nelson asserts that the rumor of the mummy’s curse was incited by the media soon after the sudden death of Lord Carnarvon. He compared the lifespan of all twenty-four men who went into the tomb, and found that the average lifespan was seventy years old versus the standard of seventy-five years. Silverman also states that he agrees with Nelson over the fact that the newspapers were the reason for the rumor, and that, even if this does not rule out the fact of a curse, there was not a curse on King Tutankhamun’s tomb. This supplements Luckhurst’s statement that the media was widely responsible for the curse and adds the detail that on the tomb of King Tutankhamun, which is widely renown for being the origin of the curse, did not actually have

At times a sign with a curse was placed in the entrance to the tomb in order to ward off the potential grave robbrers. In antiquity people took curses pretty seriously.

The curse of King Tut’s tomb is one of the most interesting stories about Howard Carter and King Tut. Howard Carter was a british archaeologist was on a quest to find King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Before the tomb was found, the curse was blamed on the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, because a supposed mummy was on board. And so the story of the curse begins. On the afternoon of November 26th, 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, they found the tomb of King Tut. When Howard Carter

Moses threw down his staff and it immediately turned into a serpent. The Egyptian magicians did the same thing, but Moses serpent ate the other serpents. Nevertheless, pharaoh did not accede to Moses’ message of God “Let my people go”.