Saturday 24 January 2009

THE CURSE OF TUTANKHAMEN

THE CURSE OF TUTANKHAMEN

People call him King Tut, and he lived in Egypt around 1350 B.C.
The boy king died at the young age of eighteen. His body was rest for more than 3.000 years in a tomb.
In November 1922, the British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered
his tomb. It still contained many beautiful and valuable objects from the king’s time. And the pharaoh’s mummy was still inside a coffin of 240 pounds or 110 kilograms of pure gold. Carter and King Tut became famous. This was an important discovery because the coffin was in perfect condition.
And then there was the story of the mummy’s curse. The curse predicted bad things for those who touched a pharaoh’s mummy.
The curse said, “Death will come to those who disturb the sleep of the pharaohs.”
Lord Carnavon paid for Carter’s expedition. Several months after the tomb’s discovery, he died in his hotel in Cairo. At the same time, at Carnavon’s house in England, his dog made a terrible howl in the middle of the night. Then it suddenly died. In the next few years, other members of Carter’s expedition died. Six years after the opening of the tomb, twelve of those present were dead.
Of the original group, only Carter lived to a ripe old age. All the others died. Was this just, a coincidence? Or was it the pharaohs’ curse?

LET’S CONSIDER THESE QUESTIONS:

1- What do you know about the Egyptian pyramids?
2- Did you ever hear about Tutankhamen? What do you know about him?
3- Where and when did Tutankhamen live?
4- When did Carter discover the tomb?
5- What was in the tomb?
6- What happened to the people who touched the pharaoh’s mummy?
7- Did Carter die soon after his discovery?

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