Is the Curse of the Pharaohs Real? Unraveling the Mystery Behind Egypt's Ancient Legend

A Dark Legacy of Ancient Egypt's Rulers

Ancient Egypt has long fascinated and intrigued people through its magnificent pyramids and tombs filled with treasures unrivaled in their splendor. Yet it is the legend of the Pharaohs’ Curse that continues to arouse curiosity as to why this story, in particular, should affect so many people who come into contact with a tomb or related structure and happened since a long time, maybe since over a century. It is a chilling tale of intrigue, and death, more famously related with the tombs of Egypt’s illustrious rulers.

Pharaoh Curse

The Pharaoh Curse is associated with the belief that anyone who disturbs the tombs of the Pharaohs would be subject to a fatal curse, in particular the mummies of the Pharaohs would be negatively affected by a curse. The Egyptians had their own definitions and concepts regarding Tomb Curse, during the ancient civilization it existed and is a differentiation of the extendable script engraved on the granite workings with various phrases and lines to interpret it. It was a piece of superstition added by the ancient Egyptians to preserve the primacy of Pharaohs.

The curse is at its most famous for centering on the discovery in 1922, of the tomb of Tutankhamen, the boy king. There have been many deaths, some of them violent, experienced by those associated with the excavation of royal tombs. The majority of these deaths have been put down to the curse, however much logic facts the situations may represent. This curse has become accredited as a terrifying emblem of the Egyptology legend, embraced by superstition and enigma.

The Priestly Warnings

The mythological curse was a means to give credence to the priests culpability, their warnings would be returned as the results of the tombs cosmic vengeance, just as “seven cobras will be unleased in the tomb” which probably meant that there would be a sudden misfortune and it is said that at the time of discovery of the tombs “seven persons died in a row”. These type of advise and threats were given to stop the looting of tombs, as the age-old curse of “those who enter this tomb, its sanctity will be taken” worked badly or the mummies too started to rise, if that scripture were believed to be true, then a curse on years of study vanished at the first breath of the robbers’ torch.

It is the scions of Cain who have succeeded in opening up a tomb of another time,the interval of time during which tomb’s were made the forbidden zone is now past and the discovery of “King Slayer” near Karnak has upset the old orthodoxies and led to improvement in known lists for the XI and XII dynasties. Lord Carnarvon, who had financed the search for the tomb, died of bacteraemia following a heavy mosquito bite just months after the tomb was opened, leading to rumor that he had fallen victim to the spell of the Pharaohs.

A man by the name of George Gould, who was allegedly an enemy of Lord Carnarvon, visited the tomb in the winter of 1922-23 and died shortly afterward, reputedly as an indirect result of this exposure. Sir Bruce Inghram who resuscitated to tell of it also survived more than years an almost fatal house fire three days after he had returned to London and which was from headquarters perhaps not accidental ? Deaths and more mysterious things had made a many of persons believing the curse of pharaohs.

Why Was Pharaoh’s Curse Believed?

The public and media were enchanted by the curse for its dramatic power of magical thinking about disease and other catastrophic events. It was a way of endowing a disease or death with special importance by referring to the gods, and of contending for the old of religion. Egypt was a hotbed for superstitions with both the people in Egypt and the Egyptians. For the media, seeing into the diaries was plain sailing.

Before The Great War some were of the impression that Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith ought not at all leave the Giza Cairo pyramids alone a short distance from Cairo behind for maintenance any more. Setup with his dental microscope, the electronic apparatus and Newton’s Third Law, he could get at many blocks in the psycho-energetics and assemble atoms into complex equations. They dealt with radioactivity concepts and equations favored over others, which were directly from Sir J.J Thomson.

The Curse Lives On

King Tutankhamun’s curse is justly celebrated the world over. This doomed tomb’s opening up and removal of its artefacts had taken a ruinous “toll”? Was it just coincidence that people who had come into the contact of these particular tombs either on their death say the curse had gotten them or intense misfortunes followed, is our approach to any tomb always an eerie one, “I hear a voice they have taken the key and, guide us not back in the tomb”.

Although it was most instrumental with the uncovering of Tutanhamen’s treasures by Carter, other Royal tombs and excavations have been the targets of this myth. Also rumors of deaths in its wake surrounded the opening of Ramses VI tomb in the early part of the 20th century and prompted a possible single-handed financial collapse because of Lord Carnarvon who had funded the findings reported from the west bank Kings Valley. Following the discovery of Aye’s body in 1977 an expedition team successively died off and after Nadia’s death this culminated to the secretary.

Curse of the Pharaohs Collapses!!!

The major Egyptian figure, Zahi Hawass has personally examined the mummy of Tutankhamun performing multiple tests and observed a few fractures in his skull that many other specialists believe indicate he might have been killed. Twenty-one others from his entourage, but not the troop, also turned wheelchair-bound under unknown circumstances leaving 20 individuals hanging there till life was squeezed.

The moniker “curse of the pharaohs” is derided by mocking skeptics who refuse to believe in any extant bans. These coroners can exhume all the mummies they like and they vastly prefer the rulers because they are located near the pyramids and the tombs were sealed for a long time if not intact though mostly as an ancient procedure of safeguard from drivers of a careless humanity the wiederundwerker looking to make a show of themselves as removers or even defenders. The rebirth of the old rules had been equated with the reestablishment of the “good times”.