Who were Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon?

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Who were Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon?
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• In 1907, Howard Carter, a British
  archaeologist was introduced to Lord Carnarvon, a
  wealthy Englishman who agreed to supply the money
  necessary for Carter to go to Egypt and search
  for the tomb of a little-known pharaoh named
  Tutankhamen, whose existence Carter had
  discovered. n was a very wealthy Englishman who
  paid Howard Carter to search for the tomb of King
  Tut in Egypt.
• Howard Carter searched for the tomb for five
  years.
• Their find became the most famous archaeological
  discovery of all time.

• On November 22, 1922 Howard Carter
  and his crew found Tutankhamens tomb in the
  Valley of the Kings---- after a water-boy sat
  down for lunch and ran his hand along the sand,
  feeling a hard step under the sand.
• On November 26th, Lord Carnarvon
  watched as Carter made a hole in the door. Carter
  leaned in, holding a candle to take a look.
  Behind him Lord Carnarvon asked, Can you see
  anything? Carters reply was, Yes. Many
  beautiful things!

• After ten years of fruitless
  searching, Lord Carnarvon was becoming unhappy
  with the poor results of Carters excavations, so
  in 1922 he told Carter he would only give him one
  more year of funding (money) to find the tomb.

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Who was King Tut anyway?

• Tutankhamen was an Egyptian pharaoh who is more
  famous for his death than for his life because
  his tomb was completely intact and gave us a
  clear idea of the details that went into burying
  a pharaoh.
• Tut began his reign when he was just 9 years old
  and died approximately 9 years later at the age
  of 18. He is believed by many historians to be
  the son of Akhenaten. Advisors of the young boy
  convinced him to change Egypts religion back to
  their previous monotheistic beliefs.
• Very few written documents on Tut survive and not
  very much is known of his life because he only
  reigned for a short time.
• For a long time experts were unsure as to the
  cause of Tuts death. Recent forensic evidence
  suggests that Tut died because of an infection
  caused by a broken leg.
• Tut is most famous because his spectacular tomb
  was discovered filled with all his personal
  treasures, by Howard Carter on November 22, 1922.

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Here are some of those treasures!Nice, arent
they?
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The Curse of King Tuts Tomb Fact or Fiction?

• This image is of the unbroken seal leading into
  Tutankhamens tomb. At the time of its
  discovery, it had remained untouched for 3,245
  years.

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Do you believe in curses?
WHAT ARE SOME CURSES YOUR ARE AWARE OF?
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Breaking the Seal on the Tomb

• These words were supposedly written
  across the seal of King Tuts tomb in Egypt when
  this tomb was opened for the first time in over
  3,000 years by the English Egyptologist Howard
  Carter. When it was opened, newspapers around the
  world announced the discovery and warned people
  of the curse.

• Death Shall Come on Swift Wings to He Who
  Disturbs the Peace of the King.

If you were an archaeologist, would you enter?
Why or why not?
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Some Strange Happenings.

• Lord Carnarvon and archaeologist Howard Carter
  entered the Tut's burial chamber on February 17,
  1923. On or about March 6, Lord Carnarvon was
  bitten by a mosquito on his cheek and became ill.
  
• The mosquito bite became infected, he contracted
  pneumonia and blood poisoning, and on April 5, he
  died. He was only 56 years old.
• The bite was in the same spot on his cheek as a
  scar found on the mummy of Tut.
• At the same time Carnarvon died, all the
  electricity in Cairo went off. In fact, the
  lights in the hospital went off almost to the
  second when he died.
• At the same hour Carnarvon died, Carnarvons pet
  terrier, Susie, howled and dropped over, dead.
  Exaggeration?
• On the same day that the entrance to the tomb was
  laid open, Carters pet canary was eaten by a
  cobra. Cobras are and were very rare in Egypt
  and especially so in winter. In ancient times
  they were regarded as the symbol of royalty.
  Coincidence?
• Most of the Egyptian workers who were present
  when the tomb was opened died within a year.
• Within 10 years 22 different people, either
  directly associated with the excavation or
  connected to those associated with the excavation
  had died.

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So What Do You Think?

• There have been many claims that all
  of these unusual circumstances are evidence that
  a curse was in fact placed on Tuts tomb to be
  given to anyone who disturbed the kings restful
  afterlife. Even with all these unusual
  happenings, there has never been any proof in
  photos of a curse written anywhere on the door of
  Tuts tomb or its chamber walls, nor did Howard
  Carter or Lord Carnarvon speak of any curse. Over
  the years, the stories may have changed and
  become exaggerated, as is often the case in
  history.
• What do you think? Do you believe
  the stories and do they seem credible enough to
  convince you that there must have been a curse,
  or do you think this is typical of what happens
  when stories get exchanged and spread over the
  course of many years?