[center][u][color:0702=red][font:0702=Calibri]An Ancient Mummy’s Curse, or Coincidence?[/font][/color][/u]
[font:0702=Calibri]In 1922, British Egyptologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon excavated the tomb of the ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamen. With a team of 25 others, Carter and Carnarvon entered the tomb and found it full of treasures and many other artifacts. They also found a tablet with hieroglyphs. When they translated the writings, they discovered that it warned of a curse that would fall on anyone who dared to enter the tomb and remove the king’s things. Seven weeks later, Lord Carnarvon became ill from an infected insect bite on his cheek and died. When the mummy was unwrapped in 1925, scientists observed a wound on the mummy’s left cheek in the same spot as the fatal bite on Carnarvon’s face. Newspapers from around the world said that Carnarvon’s death was the results of the “mummy’s curse.” Scientists, on the other hand, speculated that Carnarvon was exposed to some ancient inflection that got into his body through the wound caused by the bite. To this day, the mystery of the 3,000-year-old curse remains. Was the death of a leading archaeologist the result of a curse, or were the archaeologist’s death and a wound on a mummy’s cheek merely a coincidence?[/font][/center]