Soon after, the Nottingham Evening Post mused, "The suggestion that the Hon. Bethell was found smothered in his room at an elite London gentlemen's club. He died in 1929 under suspicious circumstances-though one modern historian has attributed his death to the work of Satanist killer Alastair Crowley. Richard Bethellīethell was Lord Carnarvon's secretary and the first person behind Carter to enter the tomb. The name of Ember's manuscript? The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Sadly, they and the family's maid died in the catastrophe. He could have exited safely, but his wife encouraged him to save a manuscript he had been working on while she fetched their son.
Ember died in 1926, when his house in Baltimore burned down less than an hour after he and his wife hosted a dinner party.
Aaron EmberĪmerican Egyptologist Aaron Ember was friends with many of the people who were present when the tomb was opened, including Lord Carnarvon. After seeing death sweep over about two dozen of his fellow excavators by 1924, Evelyn-White died by suicide-but not before writing, allegedly in his own blood, "I have succumbed to a curse which forces me to disappear." 6. Hugh Evelyn-WhiteĮvelyn-White, a British archaeologist, visited King Tut's tomb and may have helped excavate the site. He did, however, die of sepsis as a result of the surgery, just five months after the death of his supposedly cursed brother. A doctor suggested his rotten, infected teeth were somehow interfering with his vision, and Herbert had every single tooth pulled from his head in an effort to regain his sight. Aubrey Herbert was born with a degenerative eye condition and became totally blind late in life. It's said that Lord Carnarvon's half-brother suffered from King Tut's curse merely by being related to him. He never really recovered and died of a pneumonia a few months later. Gould was a wealthy American financier and railroad executive who visited the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923 and fell sick almost immediately afterward. When he tried to rebuild, it was hit with a flood. The paperweight appropriately (or perhaps quite inappropriately) consisted of a mummified hand wearing a bracelet that was supposedly inscribed with the phrase, "cursed be he who moves my body." Ingham did not die from the mummy's curse, though his house burned to the ground not long after receiving the gift. Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered the tomb, gave a paperweight to his friend Bruce Ingham as a gift.
Legend has it that when Lord Carnarvon died, all the lights in his house-or, according to some accounts, the lights in all of Cairo-mysteriously went out. This occurred a few months after the tomb was opened and a mere six weeks after the press started reporting on the " mummy's curse," which was thought to afflict anyone associated with disturbing the mummy. Lord Carnarvon accidentally tore open a mosquito bite while shaving and ended up dying of blood poisoning shortly thereafter. The man who financed the excavation of King Tut's tomb was the first to succumb to the supposed curse.
Here are nine people who might make you believe in such things, and one who should have been a direct recipient of Tut's wrath but got off with nary a scratch. Like any urban legend or media sensation, the alleged " curse of the pharaohs" grew to epic proportions over the years. When King Tut's tomb itself was discovered on November 26, 1922-after more than 3000 years of uninterrupted repose-some believed the pharaoh unleashed a powerful curse of death and destruction upon all who dared disturb his eternal slumber. On November 4, 1922, a team of archaeologists led by Howard Carter discovered a step that marked the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb.
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