Essay about King Tut Curse of the Mummies

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King Tutankhamen's Mummy Curse
February 1, 2014

Within the period of King Tutankhamen’s death Early Egyptians were well-known for believing in curses which calls for the demise and devastation to whoever enter the burial chamber. Tutankhamen was well-known in time because he was the youngest person who became the King of Egypt at the age of 9 years old in the year 1352 BC. At age of 18 he was murdered by his confidential companion and collaborators. Given the Egyptian’s culture he was given a Pharaoh’s entombment which took place in Upper Egypt at the Valley of the Kings. According to Sayre (2012) where he stated that Tutankham’s imperial burial chamber was the only one that survived the looters. Sayer also wrote that Carter was able to reveal inside the burial chamber a box of made from alabaster that enclosed the mummified internal organs of the King.
At the time that Tutankhamen’s death his last judgment were illustrated in a book known as the “Book of Death” which includes a book of spells that is buried with the deceased to help survive the ritual of judgment (Sayre, 2012). With this it is easy to believe that the Mummy’s curse to be true. According to Hawass (2010) Tutankhamen’s Curse came to light in 1922 after the funder of the expedition Lord Carnarvon died after very shortly after the had located and open the tomb. This developed the source for the theory that some supernatural influences were involved in Lord Carnarvon’s death. Also this became the emphasis on the 1922 death of Howard Carter and his team of ten archeologists that discovered the grave and died 5 years after again it was alleged that these deaths were due to the curse and these notions continued until the 1990s.
Due to the belief of the Ancient Egyptians that there was life after death those that were wealthy carefully prepare their dead for burial by mummifying their bodies and bury them with necessities of food like meats, fruits and vegetables also furnishings, clothing and ornaments for their return. According to Handwerk (2005), Egyptolosits Jennifer Wegner states that “these items certainly may have attracted insects, molds, bacteria, and those kinds of things. The raw material would have been there thousands of years ago.” This is more close to the truth than the mummy’s curse. Since these items have been there for so longs the toxin and bacteria that it accumulated most certainly might cause illness and death to those who entered the tomb. Also, according to Hanwerk (2005), laboratory studies reveled that ancient mummies carry mold and at the least two potential dangerous species like Aspergillums Niger and Aspergillums flavus wich causes reactions such as congestion to lungs bleeding. These toxins can simply have caused the death of these individuals that had entered the burial chamber, because these pathogens are detrimental to people for to it attacks the immune system. Also, the chemicals use for the