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Curse Of Death On The Tombs Research Paper

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There are lots of rumors about a certain curse that will bring death upon people who disturb the pharaohs and their tombs. Although, not everyone believes in it, and not everyone should. People shouldn’t believe in the mummy’s curse considering that it is not real. It is not real considering there is a very logical explanation that Lord Carnarvon died, the curses written on the tomb walls were only to scare off tomb robbers, and to the Egyptians, the curse of death was more a blessing to them. First of all, there was a very logical explanation as to how Lord Carnarvon died. He died through blood poisoning from a mosquito bite, not from some all-powerful curse. The fact that a mystical curse would kill a person and make it look exactly like blood poisoning is very hard to believe. In fact, Lord Carnarvon was probably safer in the tomb than outside. Egypt in the 1920s was hardly what you would call clean. The fact that there would be a strange, dangerous fungus inside an underground 3,000 year old tomb is very hard to believe. Furthermore, the curses that Howard Carter found written on the tomb walls were probably meant to scare off tomb robbers. Tomb robbers were raiders that completely plundered king’s tombs for their jewels and gold. If there were curses on the walls, the robbers would be scared off and they would not …show more content…

The mummy’s curse says that whoever enters the tomb of the pharaoh will be cursed with death. Although, the ancient Egyptians were so obsessed with death, you’d think they wanted it to come as soon as possible. So, in a way, the people of Egypt were thanking the people who excavated the tomb in their minds, considering the eternal life they believed that everyone goes to when they

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