![]() ![]() In 1929, the "curse" affected Lady Almina, Lord Carnaron's wife, and - as had already happened before for her husband - the cause of death was officially attributed to infection. Xarter.īut already at the beginning of 1923, Mace began to complain about a very poor state of health that led him slowly but inexorably to his death on April 6, 1928. The Egyptologist Arthur Cruttenden Mace, the scientist who collaborated with Howard Carter in 1922 to restore the tomb, also died of a "strange evil".īefore Mace died, he had been very close to Lord Carnarvon, and he had contributed to the writing of the volume "The Tomb of " with H. and this implicitly revealed that the former nobleman had most certainly been made aware of the background to the discovery directly by his son. The vase had therefore to have been looted during the first clandestine opening of the crypt. In his room was an alabaster vase from the infamous tomb of Tutankhamun, a precious object that did not appear on the official list of discovered objects. The police quickly classified the case as suicide. Bethell's father, died just a few months after his son, "jumping" out of the window of his London apartment. Carter in the work of cataloguing Tutankhamun's treasures, and the cause of his death has always remained a mystery. Lord Carnarvon's private secretary, the noble Richard Bethell, was found dead in his bed in 1929 following an unusual case of cardiac arrest.īethell had helped H. In 1926 the "curse" touched Bernard Pyne Grenfell, the eminent papyrologist consulted by Carnarvon for the translations of Egyptian texts. He was found hanged, and the police concluded that it was a suicide.Ī few months later Douglas Archibald Reed, the English scientist who had been commissioned to take the x-rays of the pharaoh's mummy, lost his life under unclear circumstances. Just one year later, in 1924, the famous archaeologist Evelyn White, who had collaborated with Carter to write the inventory of the pharaoh's funeral trousseau, expired in his turn. It was still in 1923 that Georges Jay Gould, a close friend of the Count of Carnarvon, died of a strange lung inflammation. The Canadian archaeologist La Fleur, who arrived in Egypt in April 1923 - in perfect health - to help Carter in his work, died just a few weeks later of a mysterious disease. It was then Lord Carnarvon's half-brother, Aubrey Herbert, who died inexplicably in 1923, following a simple dental extraction! ![]() Following this commonplace incident, his health conditions deteriorated to the point of death by sepsis. Since Howard Carter discovered the tomb - officially on Novemthe people most familiar with the details of the discoveries have all died, inexplicably, within a few years.Ībout 5 months after the discovery of the tomb, the one who financed the company, Lord Carnarvon was bitten by a mosquito on his cheek. 9 Conclusion The curse of Tutankhamun or the murders?įor almost a century now, a sinister halo has flown around the name of the pharaoh-child Tutankhamun. ![]()
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