Chapter 933： Pharaoh's curse (4)

Yang Cheng is not the only one who has the same guesses and thoughts. None of these people here are fools. The illogical things will naturally be heard right away.

The expressions of disbelief seemed to stimulate Earl Carnarvon, and he jumped up with excitement. "This incident was personally recorded by an assistant beside Howard Carter. After his death, the notebook recording the whole process was sent to the sea. Collier, we were able to understand the whole process of visiting the tomb."

William said helplessly, "It's not that we don't want to believe it, but that this sentence is really not reasonable, even if it is the assistant of Howard Carter's side, shouldn't he follow Mr. Carter closely at the time? How could it be? Hear the crowd onlookers?"

If it weren't for William's two ranks higher than him, and the royal son's sake, Earl Carnarvon would be ready to curse.

suffocated his face and asked Klin to fetch something, but everyone was speechless.

Until Klin retrieved a thick photo album, everyone turned their attention back.

The Earl of Carnarvon was cautiously treated like a rare treasure, and gently placed the album on the table, turning it page by page, and finally stopped at the middle page. The Earl of Carnarvon beckoned everyone to come together, pointing to a yellowed one. "This is a photo of the scene taken by the assistant personally. You see, there are probably dozens of people present. Except for the busy workers in front, there are not many people around. This is an empty space. On the venue, as long as someone speaks, even if the voice is small, it can be heard by outsiders."

Yang Cheng looked at the photos dumbfoundedly. Okay, he admitted that this explanation was reasonable. It was so troublesome, it was really difficult for Earl Carnarvon.

William also found it very absurd, and at the same time apologized to Earl Carnarvon, "I am sorry for our previous doubts."

Earl Carnarvon finally showed a smile. It seemed that it was a supreme honor to be apologized by His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.

But then he hung up with a solemn expression, "According to the assistant's record, when he heard this sentence at the time, he also disagreed. He felt that it was the imagination of an uncivilized Egyptian, so he paid no attention to it until the nightmare fell. , He suddenly remembered this sentence, feeling cold all over.

But at the scene, except for the old man, almost everyone was immersed in joy, because the inner room of Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened, and people were dumped by the huge golden altar. They were in groups of three. Entering to watch, no one cared about a small inscription in front of the inner room.

A few days later, the content of the stele was translated. It was the second frightening curse: “Whoever disturbs the Pharaoh’s sleep, death will spread its wings and fall on his head.”

During the subsequent clean-up and excavation, two more curses were discovered to warn disrespectful people to abandon the tomb. However, Mr. Howard Carter didn't care about it. My great-grandfather wavered several times out of awe of his ancestors, but he was finally persuaded by Mr. Carter. They didn't stop exploring and researching.

After sending away the fanatical crowd, they were ready to open the coffin. At that time, a mosquito bit the great-grandfather's face. This small mouth seemed to make the great-grandfather extremely frightened. After a while, he fell ill, developed a high fever, and lost his teeth.

According to the memories of a close servant next to his great-grandfather, at the beginning of March the following year when the mausoleum was opened, the great-grandfather's neck was swollen, and the doctors judged it to be pneumonia.

That month, in late March, the great-grandfather’s fever rose to 40 degrees and lasted for a full twelve days. According to the doctor’s judgment, it was the great-grandfather who accidentally cut a wound while shaving and caused a lung infection. .

But the great-grandfather's servant recalled that the doctor could not explain at all, why the great-grandfather who had a high fever kept calling: I heard his voice, I'm going with him.

Then, at two o'clock in the morning on April 5th, suddenly the entire Cairo was powered off. The city fell into a dark night like three thousand years ago. In silence, the 57-year-old great-grandfather suddenly passed away, and at the same time , His pet dog in England died suddenly. "

With the deep voice of Earl Carnarvon, the strange illness and death scene of Yang Cheng and others made the creeps, goosebumps came out unconsciously, Luo Yue was even more scared to get into Yang Cheng’s arms, Gu Not up to her well-dressed look.

"In short, nothing seems to be able to deter Mr. Carter's growing curiosity, and he insists on opening the sarcophagus.

When autumn arrived, the appearance of the young pharaoh's final resting place was finally exposed to the world.

Tutankhamun’s coffin is divided into three layers. The innermost one is actually made of pure gold according to the shape of the human body. When you open this last luxurious coffin, you will see a lifelike golden mask that covers it. The face of the mummy, this golden mask, has also become a focus of discussion, and has since become a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian culture.

Its black eyes are still burning after more than three thousand years, as if they are going to look into the soul of the tomb robber.

Saying that Mr. Carter is a tomb robber is not wrong to him.

In order to get the jewels that clung to the mummy, Mr. Carter and a doctor named Douglas Delhi cut the pharaoh's mummy so well-preserved into three pieces, and the technique was rough and disrespectful to the pharaoh who was admired by millions.

But during the cutting process, Dr. Delhi also made a surprising discovery: on the left cheek of the mummy, there was a wound formed during his lifetime-at the same location as the wound of his great-grandfather bitten by a mosquito.

In the next few years, dozens of people who had a relationship with Tutankhamun died suddenly, including the excavators, visitors and researchers, such as the nurse who had taken care of his great-grandfather. The cause of death is unknown so far;

There are also old friends of great-grandfather, who just went to see Tutankhamun’s tomb and developed a high fever at night and died the next night;

Scientist George Benedit fell in the tomb, but it was such a fall that killed him;

Professor Zibert Deli, who was the first to dissolve the carcass cloth and undergo an X-ray examination, also developed a high fever at night, and his body weakened rapidly, and died the next day;

A rich South African man fell from a cruise ship into the calm sea and drowned after visiting the tomb excavation site;

Since then, people who have disturbed the peace of Pharaoh have passed away mysteriously. This further magnifies the mystery of the ‘Pharaoh’s Curse’.

But the most critical factor that makes people feel that the curse is unreliable lies in Mr. Carter, the first person to open the Tutankhamun Mausoleum and the initiator of the excavation of the King’s Mausoleum. He lived in peace for twenty-seven years, not to mention that during these twenty-seven years, Mr. Carter continued to work hard and discovered and excavated the tombs of Queen Hatshepsut and King Thutmose IV.

If, according to the curse, with his ‘achievements’, only the death of a beloved canary, I’m afraid it would not be able to digest Pharaoh’s anger? "

Count Carnarvon’s question also happened to be Yang Cheng’s doubts. Could it be that the Pharaoh’s curse was misaligned when aiming at the target? It was supposed to be aimed at Howard Carter, but I don’t know because of what was applied to his beloved canary. If that is the case, Howard Carter must have saved the earth in his life, so that he committed such a'crime' in this life, but only used such a Only the canary has a life span of decades.

Of course, this is just a nasty thought. In the words of Count Carnarvon, this great archaeologist did not go far to America to avoid the curse. Maybe this is the failure of the Pharaoh’s curse. The main reason was that it was too far, and Pharaoh’s arm was not that long.

Okay, okay, this is all a joke. No one can explain the real reason. Even those explanations that seem reasonable are self-defeating because of Howard Carter's existence. It can be said that Howard Carter was alone. The debate between the pros and cons was brought up.

For example, there is an explanation-deadly fungus: In 1989, the American archaeologist Kent Venice presided over the excavation of a tomb numbered K-V5 in the Valley of the Kings . In this tomb, buried The forty-eight princes of Ramses II of the Nineteenth Dynasty.

Of course, the mausoleum has been robbed long ago, but it still leaves the excavators with an unexpected gain: this is a dark and damp mausoleum, there are piles of strange things everywhere in the tomb, they feed on mummies and burial food , The infiltrating Nile flood brought more food to them.

More importantly, these guys don’t need oxygen. The discovery of these deadly fungi is very consistent with a message in the excavation records of Tutankhamun’s tomb, that is, when Tutankhamun’s tomb was first opened, it was in the tomb. Many clumps of "unexplainable things" were also found. They are likely to be the same deadly fungi in the tomb of the prince. That is one of the important reasons for the death of Earl Carnarvon and more victims.

Why didn't any of the archaeologists who excavated K-V5 died? That's because modern science and technology have made people understand the importance of isolation. When the archaeological team first entered the tomb, they would wear protective clothing, masks, gloves, and so on.

However, this explanation has encountered obstacles in Howard Carter, why he did nothing at all, when everyone did not carry protective measures;

There is another explanation-poison: the priests of ancient Egypt are the earliest known group of people in human history who are also the best at using poison (there are historical records that primitive people living in Africa are indeed the first to use poison to hunt. ).

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