The Fascination Regarding the Mummy's Curse

Tutankhamun’s tomb is the only royal tomb in Egypt to have escaped the discovery of looters and was discovered by archeologist Howard Carter. The death of Tutankhamun was a sudden tragedy that til this day has yet to be solved. The cause of the famous teenage king’s death has been a long drawn out mystery with a range of theories as to how he met his end. There are no historical records explaining the cause or circumstances of his death, nor is there no positive evidence to suggest how he died. However, there are several theories and many of which have changed over the years.

King Tut's death is one of the most controversial topics in the world. King Tut was a pharaoh who started ruling at a very young age and died at a very young age. The finding of his tomb was one of the greatest archaeological findings in all of history, because it was nearly untouched by grave robbers King tut's death has never been proven because the person who excavated his tomb broke a lot of King Tut's body trying to get past the sarcophagus to the actual body. There are many different theories saying that King Tut died of different causes. Especially one theory that is grown particularly famous which is that King Tut died of murder but one things for sure, King Tut did not die of murder, instead he died of malaria and a broken leg.

Imagine you’re an archeologist exploring Egypt and you find an old tomb, one that has not been ransacked. Strangely, the mummy is a pharaoh in only a rich man’s tomb and it turns out this ruler died young. The mummy is King Tutankhamun and he was killed by Aye, his chief advisor. Aye killed King Tut for power over Ancient Egypt. Evidence shows that the pharaoh had many injuries before his death.

Imagine, you have been walking along the shore of the beach, but suddenly, you stumble upon a dead body floating in the salty water. You wonder how the stranger died, and why the stranger’s body was in the water. Well, let’s go back to the time when King Tut existed. King Tut was believed to be a great ruler of Egypt, but his death was the mysterious of all. He was Murdered.

It was death to raid a pyramid in ancient Egypt, and the pyramids were designed to prevent anyone from succeeding in robbing them. In fact , there were inscriptions in various places that were meant to curse anyone who would dare invade. Rumors were also spread, which intended to support this idea. More recently, in 1923, King Tut’s tomb was discovered by Prof. Lord Carnarvon, and archaeologist. He died of blood poisoning

Ancient Egypt mummification; has helped us learn how the Egyptian’s properly mummified people and the process it took to get to the final steps of putting them to rest, for their next life. Without the Egyptian’s preforming this process; we might not know what people in ancient Egypt looked like or what they did back then. The term mummy means a person that has passed away; and their body is preserved. The most acknowledged mummies are from ancient Egypt. The Egyptian's believed that a preserved body was used for the afterlife. There are two well known mummies; they are Rames the second and Tutankhamun or better known as (King Tut). They were both popular Pharaoh’s in ancient Egypt.

The mummies curse did not simply originate from one rumor or one story, it originated from a conglomeration of a variety of different sources each with a different version of the tale. One story that was influential in the establishment of the curse was the story of Douglas Murray and his mummy case, with the painting of the image of a priestess of Amen-Ra in the 1860s, that brought death and misfortune to all that came into contact with the story retaining its notability through the Victorian era to the early twentieth century. The second rumor originated from the death of Walter Ingram whose father founded the Illustrated London New in 1842 where, soon after his death, the newspaper became one of the most influential media outputs

The third painting by Paul Cezanne is significant because he tried to show his vision but forgot every thing that went before it. The roofs and walls of the houses are not drawn in proper perspective. The special element is changed and the sea seems to hang like a curtain over the village.

The idea became so widespread as to become a pop-culture mainstay, especially in horror films (though originally the curse was invisible, a series of mysterious deaths, rather than the walking dead mummies of later fiction). The "Curse of the Pharaohs" is supposed to haunt the archaeologists who excavated the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, whereby an imprecation was supposedly pronounced from the grave by the ancient Egyptian priests, on anyone who violated its precincts. Similar dubious suspicions have surrounded the excavation and examination of the (natural, not embalmed) Alpine mummy, "Ötzi the Iceman." While such courses are generally considered to have been popularized and sensationalized by British journalists of the 19th century, ancient Egyptians were in fact known to place curses inscriptions on markers protecting temple or tomb goods or property." Wikipedia, author unknown,

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.

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

Egyptians believed cats had magic powers. Most all Egyptians had a cat in their home to protect the home and the children who lived there.

The discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun has answered many questions and solved many mysteries about the life of people in Ancient Egypt. However, the life and death of the boy king is still a mystery itself. For example, one continual argument and mystery is how King Tut died. Although there are many opposing theories, King Tutankhamen died because he was already weak from genetic diseases, then broke his leg, which got infected and caused King Tut to die.

If you ask the average American to name an egyptian king ninety nine percent of the time they will spout out the name king Tutankhamun or king Tut for short with out really even thinking about it. Why is that so many automatically associate an egyptian casket with the one that was unearthed in Tut's tomb? Maybe it has something to do with the kings appointment at such a young age and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death or murder at the tender age of eighteen. Maybe it has something to do with the highly publicized discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun's is the only royal tomb in Egypt to have escaped the

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