Mummy Picture

short story

THE CURSE OF TUTANHKAMEN..........

People call him King Tut, and lived in Egypt around 1350 B.C. The boy king died at young age of eighteen. His body was at rest for more then 3000 years in a toumb.

In November 1922, the British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered his tomb. It still contained many beautiful and valuable objects from the king's time. And the pharaoh's mommy was still insied a coffin 240 pound ( 110 kilograms ) of pure gold.

Carter and King Tut became famous. This was an importan discovery because the coffin was in perfect condition. And then therewas the story of the mummy's curse. the curse perdicted bad things for those who touched a pharaoh's mummy.

The cures said, " Death will come to those who disturb the sleep of the pharaohs"

Lord Carnavan paid for Carter's expedition. Several montha after the tomb's discovery, he died in his hotel in Cairo. At the same time, at Carnavan's house in England, hit\s dog made a terrible howl ina middle of the night.

Then it suddenly died. In the next few years, other members of Carter's expedition died. Six years after the opening of the tomb, twelve of those present were dead.

Of the original group, only Carter lived to a ripe old age. All the other died. Was this just a coincidence? Or was it the pharaohs' curse?