Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Egyptian
Tombs That Should Have Stayed Closed.
Prior to the 1920s, there was a lot of talk about ancient Egyptian curses, but when King
Tut’s tomb was breached in 1922, the talk turned to practically verified urban legend
and people began to link digs to deaths.
Terrifying.
Before we get into this video, why don’t you let me know if you believe in the ancient
curses of Egypt or if you think it is all coincidence.
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So, what tombs should have been left alone?
10 the Cursed Workers Tomb of Giza A 4,500 year old tomb has just reopened near
the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The mass burial site in the tribal mountain was closed for nearly 30 years in order to
protect it from thieves.
The Giza Plateau tomb is thought to be cursed and contains the remains of high profile workers,
rather than slaves, including the ancient royal palace supervisor, Nefer Thieth, his
two wives and 18 children.
The tomb contains two fake doors, so clearly people were not supposed to get in.
Inscribed on the wall is the following curse warning: All people who enter this tomb who
will make evil against this tomb and destroy it, may the crocodile be against them in water,
and snakes against them on land.
May the hippopotamus be against them in water, the scorpion against them on land.”
The tomb was reopened for the public recently in order to boost tourism in the area, but
with that kind of warning, I don’t fancy a visit.
9 - The Curse of Amenhotep Curses aren’t supposed to be funny, I get
that….
But I can’t help but think that the Egyptians went a little overboard when inscribing the
curse in the the son of Hapu, Amenhotep’s tomb.
Let’s have a little read shall we… he who enters the tomb will lose their earthly
positions and honors, be incinerated in a furnace in execration rites, capsize and drown
at sea, have no successors, receive no tomb or funerary offerings of their own, and their
bodies would decay because they will stave without sustenance and their bones will perish.
Cool.
Bases are pretty covered, then!
While his tomb was broken into, his sarcophagus hasn’t actually been opened yet as It has
a very well preserved face mask.
Probably best to keep it that way.
8 - The Black Tomb of Osiris Am I here for an eeire black tomb…?
No, I am not.
Am I here for an eeiree black tomb belonging to the Egyptian god of the dead?
Again, I really am going to have to pass.
In 2015 a 25th Dyndasty structure was unearthed near Luxor on the west bank of the River Nile.
So Osiris was a mythological god of the dead, but it seems the Egyptians made a tomb for
him, anyway.
All ancient Egyptian burial chambers were associated with Osiris as pharos and rich
Egyptians wanted to be able to share the afterlife with him.
If Osiris decorates normal tombs, who decorates his?
Urm demons holding knives.
Can’t be good!
The tomb was opened in 2015 – a year still fraught with violent protests in the country.
I don’t know about you, but I think it could have been a bad idea to open the God of the
dead’s tomb.
Just a hunch.
7 - Tombs with the Donkey Curse You may not have learned this particularly
gnarly piece of information at school when you were studying the ancient Egyptians, but
a lot of twenty first dynasty curses used to protect wills, property and tombs in Egypt
were subject to a curse from the god Seth, who was the god of storms, violence and the
desert…he also just so happened to be a donkey.
Anyway, curses involving Seth specifically said he would rape those who entered tombs…so…I
mean….
I wouldn’t want to mess with a curse that promised a donkey would….you know.
A Donkey curse was famously found in the tomb of Deir el Bahri Graffito… but we don’t
know if it…er…ever came to fruition…because, well, who would admit that?
6 - Mummy Soup Very recently, in July 2018, a mystery tomb
was opened in the Alexandria region.
In it, archaeologists found a black granite sarcophagus dating back 2,000 years.
As the began to lift the lid, a pungent smell stopped them in their tracks.
Later, with masks and the Egyptian army in tow, the lid was lifted to reveal decomposed
bodies… the family inside were buried but their mummified remains had been exposed to
the elements and they were found as just bones in a pool of water…
water which presumably their bodies dissolved in over time.
Ergh!
So far so good on the curse front, but these things seem to take time to manifest.
None the less, for me, the decomposed body water would have been enough to fill my nightmares
forever!
Did the Mummy of Amen Ra Cause the Titanic to sink at number 5
A mysterious mummy, thought to belong to The Princess of Amen Ra was dug up from a vault
in Luxor in the late 1800s, or so the story goes.
4 Englishmen were said to have drawn lots to buy the Mummy in the 1890s, with one paying
several thousand pounds sterling to take the mummy.
It seems this man walked out in to the desert later than day and never returned.
Another of the men was shot, having to have his arm amputated.
Another lost all his money, and another suffered a severe illness.
None the less, the coffin eventually reached England where it caused all kinds of drama.
It was eventually gifted to the British Museum, where it was later put up for sale for further
chaos it brought upon the building.
The Legend has it that the Mummy was sold to a wealthy American and packed in the Cargo
hold of the RMS Titanic…and, well, we all know what happened there.
A lot of people dismiss this as pure myth as there was no evidence of a mummy in the
cargo hold of the ship, but honestly, who knows.
4 - Cosmic Void The Heritage Innovation preservation project
has been working with Cairo university and the Egyptian government to scan the great
pyramids in Giza.
In 2017, the Pyramid housing the tomb of the great Pharaoh Khufu showed a mysterious and
spooky void when it was scanned.
Built in 2560 BC, this weird void has been locked away and secret for over 4000 years.
By scanning the pyramid with cosmic rays, the team behind the research estimate that
the void of 98 feet long and 50 feet high…which is pretty big?
Like….what even is this void?
Is it a black hole?
I guess not as black holes swallow what is around them….so it is just kind of…nothingness.
Which in itself is truly creepy.
Some archaeologists are calling it an intentional design element, but …what is it?
It seems this void is completely sealed off from any known passageways inside the pyramid.
There is no way to get to it…so how was it built?
So far the scan pyramid team haven’t ventured into the void yet, which I honestly think
is for the best.
Who knows what kind of plague could be unearthed.
3 - The Catacombs Curse at Tuna el-Gebel Home to the tomb of Petosiris and Isadora,
the Tuna El Gebel Acropolis was excavated by archeologist, Sami Gabra in the 1940s.
Those who worked on the excavations in the area reported spells of dizziness, headaches,
shortness of breath and even in some cases, seizures.
At the time the team thought they had angered the ibis headed god, Toth by disturbing an
ancient curse.
In reality, it was discovered that the tomb contained a lot of noxious gas, which probably
explains the sickness.
Either way, some would say they probably should have left the tomb well alone.
2 - The Two Cursed Mummies of Alexandria In 1699, it was claimed by Author Louis Penicher
that a Polish man had purchased two mummies excavated from tombs in Alexandria.
It seems the man wanted to study them for medicinal purposes, which was very common
back in that era…often people would resort to robbing graves so they could have bodies
to study.
Anyway, the mummies were taken on board a ship from Egypt to Poland on a voyage across
the Mediterranean Sea.
Unfortunately, removing the mummies from their tombs was a terrible idea.
The man and his crew started to have violent and horrific nightmares, saying they were
haunted by two ghosts.
They soon realised the ghosts haunting them were the spirits of the mummies.
They tossed them overboard and as soon as the corpses were swallowed by the sea, the
visions stopped.
Oh, it was a mistake….a big mistake.
On February 16th 1923 the last chamber of King Tutankhamen’s tomb was opened….and
that whole can of cursed worms is coming in to number 1.
King Tut died when he was a teenager in around 1400 BC.
Fast forward 2500 years and archaeologist Howard Carter entered his sealed burial chamber
and began the rumours of the Egyptian Curse.
The tomb was excavated and entered between November 1922 and February 1923.
The tomb was, like almost all Egyptian tombs, inscribed with a curse…and this one seemed
particularly potent.
On the day Carter entered the tomb, a cobra got into his pet canary’s cage, with the
bird dead in its mouth.
The cobra is the symbol of the Egyptian monarchy and the symbolism wasn’t lost on locals
who began to panic.
Lord Carnarvon, the financial backer of the excavation project, died shortly after the
tomb was first breached as a result of an infected mosquito bite.
The bite possible matched a healed legion found on King Tut’s cheek during his autopsy.
Two of Carnarvon’s half brothers died shortly after excavation, one of the doctors who worked
on King Tut’s body, Radiologist Sir Archibald Douglas Reid – died a year later, as did
2 others members of the excavation team, all within a few years of the tombs opening.
Carter gave a mummified hand with a scarab bracelet on it to a friend, Sir Bruce Ingram.
The Bracelet was inscribed with a curse and shortly after Ingram’s house burned down.
When it was rebuilt, it was flooded.
So there we have it!
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