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Hey guys welcome back to talk Tuesday
so today we are going to be talking about a very
interesting curse, the last time i even talked about a curse
was when we did the Kennedy curse video which was about a year ago, but
this time we're going to be talking about King Tut, the story behind
what happened to the people who found King Tut's tomb and
excavated it , is really really fascinating , so King Tut
lived from approximately 1341
BCE to 1323 BCE
he was the 12th pharaoh of the 18th
Egyptian dynasty and had 9 years in power approximately
from 1332 to
1323 BCE, and King Tut actually
only lived to be 19 years old
wow, 6 years younger than me , this actually wasn't
like a young death though, because the average life expectancy back then
was only 32, it was really rare
for people to even live passed like 40 , so very different
then it is today, so King Tut ended up
marrying his half sister
so, got a little incest thrown in there ,
and its really interesting King Tut is one of the more well known pharaohs from
Egypt, but he actually didn't
really do anything that spectacular, there are many other
Kings that have done way more than King Tut did
during their ruling, the reason that King Tut ended up becoming really
famous is because of how perfect
he was when they found him, the condition of his tomb
it was just really really all intact and they were able to
get a lot of information from it and it was such a famous and
exciting discovery, that that's really the name that sticks with people. King Tut
was buried in the valley of the kings.
in ancient Egyptian beliefs the journey to the afterlife begins
as the sun sets, Pharaoh take the route of the sun
as it passes down into the under world armed with spells
from the walls of the tomb, he faces many
challenges, including a lake of fire
and a giant serpent
most Egyptians would then face the most rigorous test
to have their heart weighted against the feather of truth
because he died unexpectedly at a young age it is
believed he had a quick burial and was put in a smaller
tomb that was likely built for someone who wasn't as
important as he was and 70 days after
his death he was laid to rest and his tomb
was sealed , and whats really interesting, is there was actually no record
of King Tut after he died, so they really didn't
know much about him until he was found and it was extremely
hard for them to find entrance of his tomb, because
it was buried in a ton of debris, however, British
archaeologist, Howard Carter
had began excavating in Egypt in 1891
and it wasn't until November 26th of 1922
when Carter and archaeologist George Herbert entered
the interior chambers of the tomb, and they discovered that most of what
was in the tomb was like completely fine
completely intact, and it took over 17
years for the team to excavate the tomb , this tomb
was really big, it had 4 different rooms in it, they uncovered
thousands of objects throughout the 4 rooms, tons of
painted murals on the walls, that told the story of Tuts funeral
many of these artworks show scenes from the important
religious text ,the book of the dead. Their
primary objective was to insure the safe passage of the
pharaoh from this life into the next, this was a major concern
to Egyptians, when a pharaoh died
can we be sure the pharaoh is going to have a safe journey into
the afterlife? all of the texts
all of the scenes in these tombs are designed
to serve those
simple functions. Oils , perfumes
jewelry, statues made of gold. This is the anti
chamber looking exactly as it did when Howard Carter
found it, inside this chamber alone
Carter and other members of his
excavation team found and recorded almost 700
objects. Magnificent throne of the King
covered in gold from top to bottom. But when it finally
came time to open King Tuts coffin, which was
opened almost 3000 years after he
died, can you imagine the condition your body would be in after
3000 years, but King Tut was in pretty good condition because
of the way that they preserved him, they were masters of
preserving the dead, its incredible what the Egyptians were doing
when they finally opened his coffin, they in fact
found another smaller coffin inside of it and then when they
lifted the lid on the second coffin , a third one was
underneath that, and this one was made entirely out of gold
and then on top of this third coffin there was
this strange liquid that
was poured on as liquid but it hardened over
it over the years. so it actually stuck
the third coffin to the second coffin and this thick residue
had to be removed with hammering and high levels of heat but
when they raised the lid of the third coffin they found King Tut
in great condition
they've selected a spot on one of Tuts leg bones
there could be DNA in the marrow
so what about the curse? well its been said that there is a
curse on King Tuts tomb, people say that it is haunted
and anyone who participated in the excavation process
of the tomb would be cursed, and the crazy thing is
is a lot of the people who worked on the tomb ended up
dying in extremely weird events or getting sick
or just freak accidents, so the first one was George
Herbert and he was actually the person who financed the
excavation of the tomb he was considered to be the first victim of the
curse because he accidentally tore open a mosquito
bite while shaving and got blood poisoning
now that is really unlucky and unfortunate and
i didn't even know that could happen, and this occurred only months after the tomb
was opened, then there was Bruce Ingman, Howard Carter
who was the archaeologist that discovered the tomb gave a
paper weight to his friend Ingman as a gift and the
gift was a mummified hand wearing a bracelet
that was supposedly inscribed with the phrase "curse
be he who moves my body" and then Ingman's house burned to the ground
and while he was trying to rebuild it, it was hit with a giant
flood, then there's George J Gold
Gold was a wealthy american financier and rail
road executive who visited the tomb in 1923
and he got sick almost immediately afterwards
and he had never recovered from it and he died of pneumonia
a few months later, now whats really interesting is there could have
been mold spores in the tomb
there's scientist who say that its possible that
they were even purposely put there by the Egyptians for whoever
opened it they would release these spores that apparently can
last for thousands of years and live through that
kinda of that made them sick, but then most of the deaths here aren't from
sickness at all, Aubrey Herbert he was the
half brother to George Herbert although Aubrey
never visited the tomb, its thought that because he was
related to George he also got cursed, he was actually born
with a degenerative eye disease and in his late life he became
totally blind, a doctor suggested that his rotten teeth
may be causing his eye problems
his lack of vision so they recommended
him removing all of his teeth and he got
every single tooth removed from his head
and it still didn't even help him, it ended up making it
worse he ended up getting sepsis and died a few months later
then there's Evelyn White, Evelyn was a British archaeologist
who visited Tuts tomb and probably helped excavate
the site, after seeing a bunch of his co-workers die
as a result of opening the tomb he got really freaked out and
ended up killing himself and allegedly he wrote
a note in his own blood
saying that "i have succumb to a curse
which force me to disappear". Then there's Aaron
Ember who died in 1926 when
his house in Baltimore burned down less than an hour
after he and his wife hosted a dinner party, the crazy thing is he could
have exited safely, but his wife told him to safe a manuscript
that the had been working on and they ran out of time
and all of them including his kids, wife and maid died
the name of the manuscript "The Egyptian Book of the Dead"
then there was Richard Bethell he was the 2nd person to enter the tomb
he died in 1929 he was actually found
in his room at an elite gentleman's club in London
smothered, there was also a bunch of fires at his
house, which is where he kept a ton of artifacts, then there
was Douglas Reed he actually wasn't apart
of the excavation team but he was a radiologist
that x-rayed King Tut before the mummy
was given to the museum, he got sick the next day
and died 3 days later James
Henry Breasted, Breasted was one of the excavators
who worked on the scene and when he went home he found out that his
pet Canary had been eaten by a Cobra which is creepy
because the cobra is a symbol of protection
in ancient Egypt, he ended up not dying until 1935
but he died very quickly after he had gotten back from
trip to Egypt, then there's Howard Carter the guy
who discovered the tomb and he actually never
experienced any bad luck any crazy illness or
any unfortunate event or his house burning down, he died at
64 which is relatively normal from lymphoma
his tombstone said " may your spirit live , may you spend
millions of years, you who love Thebes sitting with your face to the north
wind your eyes beholding happiness" and
people think that the pharaohs actually spared him
of the curse. I don't know do you guys think this is a curse? do you think
its a bunch of strange coincidences? Tell me in the comments i thought
this was such a fascinating story and be sure to give this video a thumbs up
if you want to see more videos on ancient Egypt because
its one of my favorites topics and i'd be happy to do so
that's it from me today guys i hope your having a great day and i will see you
next time bye