Scientist cracks cause of 'Pharaoh's curse' that killed more than 20 people who ... trends now
A scientist claims to have cracked the cause of the 'Pharaoh's curse' that was believed to have killed more than 20 people who opened King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
Ancient Egyptian text threatens 'death by a disease that no doctor can diagnose' upon anyone who disturbs royal mummified remains - but Ross Fellowes has suggested there is a biological reason behind the deaths.
The study determined the cause was radiation poisoning from natural elements and toxic waste deliberately put inside the sealed vault.
Exposure to substances could have led to certain cancers, like the one that took the life of archaeologist Howard Carter - the first person to walk inside Tut's tomb more than 100 years ago.
A scientist claims to have cracked the case of the 'Pharaoh's curse' that was believed to have killed more than 20 people who opened King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922
Carter then died in 1939 likely of a heart attack after a long battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, which impacts the germ-fighting immune system of the body.
And radiation poisoning has been linked as a cause of the cancer.
Lord Carnarvon, one of the men who also walked through the treasured filled rooms, died from blood poisoning five months after the discovery.
He suffered a severe mosquito bite, which became infected after a razor cut.
Shortly after the tomb was opened, there was a short power failure and all the lights throughout Cairo went out.
Carnarvon's son also reported that his favorite dog howled and suddenly dropped dead.
Other people who entered the boy king's tomb died of asphyxia, stroke, diabetes, heart failure, pneumonia, poisoning, malaria and X-ray exposure - and they all passed in their 50s.
Lord Carnarvon (left) and Howard Carter (right) have long been said to have died because of the Pharaoh's cures
The study determined the cause was radiation poisoning from natural elements and toxic waste deliberately put inside the sealed vaults
British Egyptologist Arthur Weigall attended the opening of Tut’s tomb, where he was accused of inciting the ‘myth’ of the curse - he died early at 54 of cancer.
However, inscriptions found inside other burials throughout Egypt
