Most people scoff the idea of curses coming true, but the events that followed the opening Tutankhamun's tomb Howard Carter 1922 may make them think twice laughing.
The story the curse began when the last man climbed out the tomb. It is said that a sudden sandstorm blew and that the men the party saw a hawk, the ancient royal symbol Egypt, fly overhead.
Local Egyptians took this to mean that the spirit the dead king had left his tomb, cursing those who had opened it. Five months later the man who financed the expedition, Lord Carnavon, was bitten the cheek a mosquito. Normally nothing too serious! But the bite became infected and Carnavon caught pneumonia and died an Egyptian hospital.
the precise moment his death all the lights Cairo went and thousands miles away the Carnavon mansion Hampshire, England, his dog began to howl – and died the night. Doctors who examined the mummified body Tutankhamun reported that he had a small depression his cheek, just like a mosquito bite, exactly the same spot where Carnavon had been bitten.
Many people who visited the tomb also died strange circumstances. Lord Carnavon's half-brother died a burst appendix. An Egyptian prince whose family claimed descent the pharaohs was murdered London and his brother committed suicide. An American railway tycoon caught a cold while the tomb and died pneumonia.
The man who helped Howard Carter to catalogue the items found the tomb committed suicide, and a few months later his father jumped his death from the balcony his London flat. There was an alabaster vase the tomb the room that he jumped .
1966 the government Egypt agreed to lend the treasures France an important exhibition. The director Antiquities fought the decision because he had dreamed that he would die if he allowed the treasures to go Egypt. When he left the last meeting, still trying to make the authorities change thair minds, he was knocked down a car and died two days later.
However, Howard Carter who was the first man the tomb died - natural causes - 1939.