Pharaoh Tutankhamun ascended the throne at the age of nine. In 1340 BC, he died suddenly at the age of 18, and was buried in the mausoleum of the Valley of the Kings, with a history of more than 3,300 years. Carter has been the head of the antiquities appraisal department of the Egyptian government since 19 17. He spent seven years looking for the young master of the kingdom of Egypt in historical documents, and finally "got it as easy as blowing off dust." After he opened the Pharaoh's sarcophagus, his joy was even more unspeakable, because it was a Pharaoh's coffin that had never been stolen. Therefore, he can also be said to have discovered the only untouched tomb among ancient Egyptian tombs.
However, on April 5th, 1923, on the 30th day after the Pharaoh's tomb was opened, Lord carnarvon, who entered the tomb with Carter, died suddenly. He supported the excavation of the mausoleum with huge funds. His sister later wrote in her memoirs: "Before he died, he had a high fever and repeatedly shouted:' I heard his call and I want to go with him!'" " "
It is recalled that after entering the Valley of the Kings, the Lord was bitten by a mosquito on his face and didn't care at that time. Soon, he was cut again while shaving, and he gradually felt unwell, so he returned to Cairo to recuperate. 1March, 92317th, the disease was diagnosed as erysipelas, resulting in blood poisoning from head to neck. Later, he developed pneumonia and eventually died of heart failure. He died at the age of 57.
Shortly after Lord Cana's death, another archaeologist, Mr. Mercer, contracted an almost crazy disease, which puzzled the doctors. He soon died of illness in the hotel where the Lord died. Mr Mercer is Carter's close assistant. He helped Carter through the passage that closed the tomb door.
Death followed. After opening the tomb door, Sir Douglas Reed, who took X-rays of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's body, died a few months after all the work was completed. He was the first person in the world to take an X-ray of Pharaoh's mummy and a famous X-ray expert. 1929, aminah, Sir's widow, also died suddenly. It is said that the cause of death was also insect bite. In the same year, Carter's secretary Richard Bessel died of a heart attack. His father fell from a seven-story building at his home in London and died.
During Carter's excavation of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's mausoleum, a Canadian professor was traveling in Egypt. Carter invited him to visit the excavation site. At 3 o'clock the next morning, he died of a high fever in a hotel in Lasse town, a few miles away from the mausoleum. Until 1929, 22 people died in the excavation of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's mausoleum (including work) and related personnel.
In the 500 years after 1500 BC, 30 Egyptian pharaohs were secretly buried in the Valley of the Kings, a desolate valley north of the undead city. After entering the "heaven", the pharaohs attached great importance to the layout of their tombs. In addition to doing their best to build them, they also tried their best to make them safe behind them. Therefore, in architectural design, it is required that the utensils in the "heaven" must have food and clothing, including weapons. It is required that the remains must be well protected, so the mummy method is adopted to preserve them for a long time. The deeper the grave, the better, plus a closed and heavy door. In many tombs, labyrinthine walkways have been laid ... As a declaration and warning, the pharaohs also carved a spell on the tombstone, such as "Those who enter the tomb will die".
However, all kinds of grave diggers turn a blind eye to this and are stubborn. Therefore, for centuries, many people who dared to enter the Pharaoh's mausoleum, whether grave robbers, explorers or scientists, have fulfilled this spell: they were either killed on the spot or died strangely afterwards.
1924, British Egyptian biologist White also entered a grave. This is a Pharaoh's tomb that has been excavated for a long time. White just wandered around with a curious feeling. But after he came out, he hanged himself in the hotel. Before he died, he bit his finger and wrote a thousand-word suicide note, claiming that his death was caused by a spell on the Pharaoh's tombstone. He went to see God with regret.
Gaimir Mehlai, curator of the Cairo Museum in Egypt, has always been dismissive of the Pharaoh's curse, thinking that those people who died in the past because they entered the tomb were purely coincidental-either they suffered from incurable diseases or they encountered unexpected events. One day, he claimed, "I have dealt with Egyptian tombs and mummies many times in my life, but I am still alive." However, just after he proudly said this sentence, he died of sudden illness in less than January, when he was less than 52 years old. On the day of his death, he directed a group of workers to pack a batch of precious cultural relics.
So, is the Pharaoh's spell really so effective? In this regard, researchers have written articles to express their views.
There is a view that a layer of pink and gray-green veneer was found on the wall of the tomb in the Valley of the Kings. This may be a poison with radioactive substances. Some people will die if they contact or even inhale this poison, plus some unfavorable factors in their own physiology. 1963, Ize Tinghao, Ph.D. in biology and professor of medicine at Cairo University, announced that according to the results of regular physical examination by archaeologists and relevant personnel who had entered the tomb, it was found that there was a virus on the body surface and body of all the subjects, which could cause respiratory inflammation or human fever. Of course, where the virus is attached to the grave is still uncertain.
Twenty years later, in 1983, a French female doctor named Philip also published her research results. She pointed out that the death of the deceased was actually an allergic reaction to the mold existing in the grave. She found that the symptoms of these victims were basically the same-lung infection and suffocation. She explained that after the death of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt, besides treasures, handicrafts and clothes, there were a lot of fruits, vegetables and other foods. However, after thousands of years of decay, food will produce a toxic mold with strong adhesion, floating in the air and sticking to the tomb wall. If you breathe with weak resistance, it will lead to lung diseases and death.
No matter whether these analyses are accurate or not, they fundamentally clarify and deny the rumors that Pharaoh's spells were fulfilled, so they are of scientific significance. Because there is a hearsay superstitious person who has to face up to the fact that Mr. howard carter, who led the archaeological team to open the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun-he should be the "number one criminal" who desecrated the tomb of Pharaoh-did not bear the brunt of the Pharaoh's spell. He didn't die until March 1939, at the age of 67, which was a natural death. Sir Justina, an expert in ancient Chinese characters hired by Carter, read the spell on the Pharaoh's tombstone and lived to the age of 84. The researchers also pointed out that the archaeological team directly led by Carter had 1 1 person. In a few years after the excavation, four people died, five people died one after another 20 years later, and two people were still alive 40 years later.
In a word, in the view of realistic scientists, the so-called Pharaoh's spell achievement is far-fetched. Their tendentious opinion is that in the dusty and mosquito-and-fly-breeding environment of the Imperial Valley, people with weak self-resistance are prone to various diseases. It is not surprising that they died after they came here. This has nothing to do with Pharaoh's magic.