*Ø* Blogmanac | Science may dispel curse of pharaohs
"Egypt will use modern technology to neutralise the curse of the pharaohs, which myth blames for the deaths of those who have opened the tombs of the ancient rulers, Egypt's chief of antiquities said.
"Zahi Hawass said a study would examine unexcavated tombs for dangerous substances, gases or germs to explain the curse, whose fame spread in the 1920s following the death of a British aristocrat who entered King Tutankhamen's tomb.
"'At one of my excavations ... I found inscriptions telling us, "If anyone touches my tomb, he will be eaten by a crocodile, a hippo and a lion." It doesn't mean that this will actually happen,' Dr Hawass said ...
"Part of the study would focus on dangerous germs which may have developed over the centuries in mummified human remains, said Dr Hawass.
"British archaeologist Howard Carter and his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, were among the first to enter the tomb of Tutankhamen - the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3000 years ago - in Luxor's Valley of the Kings in 1922.
"Lord Carnarvon died shortly afterwards from an infected mosquito bite. Newspapers at the time said a pharaonic curse had killed him and other people linked it to the discovery. However, scientists have suggested a disease lying dormant in the tomb may have killed the aristocrat."
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"Egypt will use modern technology to neutralise the curse of the pharaohs, which myth blames for the deaths of those who have opened the tombs of the ancient rulers, Egypt's chief of antiquities said.
"Zahi Hawass said a study would examine unexcavated tombs for dangerous substances, gases or germs to explain the curse, whose fame spread in the 1920s following the death of a British aristocrat who entered King Tutankhamen's tomb.
"'At one of my excavations ... I found inscriptions telling us, "If anyone touches my tomb, he will be eaten by a crocodile, a hippo and a lion." It doesn't mean that this will actually happen,' Dr Hawass said ...
"Part of the study would focus on dangerous germs which may have developed over the centuries in mummified human remains, said Dr Hawass.
"British archaeologist Howard Carter and his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, were among the first to enter the tomb of Tutankhamen - the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3000 years ago - in Luxor's Valley of the Kings in 1922.
"Lord Carnarvon died shortly afterwards from an infected mosquito bite. Newspapers at the time said a pharaonic curse had killed him and other people linked it to the discovery. However, scientists have suggested a disease lying dormant in the tomb may have killed the aristocrat."
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