Hello to everyone! Today the world celebrates the great date. On November 4th, 1922, Howard Carter, a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, made the great discovery. Carter and his assistants found the entrance to Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings. This event was of crucial historical and cultural importance, actually launching the new – modern – era of Egyptology. But at the same time that’s followed by the Curse of Tutankhamen.
Mankind as the years’ progress drops old superstitions and takes on new ones. But we he never get rid of superstitions forever; we change them and alter them. Some people believe superstitions, some discourage and despise them. Was the curse of young Egyptian king there or not, it still remains an enigma. But the truth is so that a lot of terrible events occurred after the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb. There was a legend that anyone who dared to disturb the rest of ancient mummies and to open their tomb would know the anger of the mummies. “Death Shall Come on Swift Wings to Him Who Disturbs the Peace of the King”, such words were carved on the sealed doors of King Tutankhamen’s Tomb. Unsealing of King Tutankhamen’s burial chamber started the chain of inexplicable and strange events.
Carter’s canary, killed by a cobra (a symbol of Egyptian Kings), opened a series of deaths. Only two months after the chamber’s unsealing, Lord Carnarvon, the financial backer of the search of the tomb, died of blood poisoning after a mosquito bite during his morning shaving. The next was his dog died. The other people who dug the tomb followed them in death under inexplicable circumstances; among them were Arthur C. Mace, James Breasted, Alan Gardiner and many others. However, the numerous scientists discredited all “curse” rumors: toxic gases, pathogens (bacteria that releases spores into the air to be breathed) influence may successfully cause the death of the crew.
The enigmas of Egypt never end, though. Whether the Tutankhamen’s curse is truth or fiction, the facts closely connected with the Pharaoh’s mystery seem to interest people even today. Egypt sightseeing is really worth seeing with exciting pyramids and charming monuments. Russian ladies still tend to visit this mysterious country and to see marvelous pyramids personally.