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For most of the excavators of Tutankhamun's tomb, the lingering nightmare hanging over their heads began the moment they entered the tomb: in the following period of time, one by one, they either Is it just a random coincidence to die or get sick? On April 10, 1923, a funeral was being held in a cemetery in the Beacon Hills, England.The Beacon Mountains, a high mountain through Hamsell in north-east England, where they buried Herbert Carnarvon: for the then 50-year-old Earl of Carnarvon, he could see his home in the distance ——Highclere Castle, and at the same time, you can look forward to your own share of real estate.

■Mysterious death There is a German historian named Philip Vandenberg who wrote a book about ancient Egyptian tombs. The book talks about the creepy and strange thing of "Pharaoh's poison".The general idea is: whoever dares to break into the place where the pharaoh rests to disturb their peace, he will eventually be killed by the poisonous curse of the pharaoh.Anyone who had contact with the tombs of ancient Egyptian rulers, no matter what they did or what their motives were—in other words, whether they were doing scientific research or trying to get rich by robbing tombs, Pharaoh’s revenge on them Always treat everyone equally.

The pharaohs who were buried in the ancient tombs of Egypt had already become mummies. Obviously, they would not kill people.However, the historian Vandenberg cited many examples to prove that many archaeologists actually contracted strange diseases and died after coming into contact with the pharaoh's tomb. Vandenberg begins his book "The Pharaoh's Spells" by saying that he and Dr. Gamal Mehrer, the director of the Cairo Museum, are sitting by the swimming pool of a Cairo hotel and chatting about the pharaoh's spells.The doctor said: "There are often some strange phenomena in life, and no explanation has been found so far."

"So, you don't believe in Pharaoh's spell?" the author asked him. Mehrer hesitated, then said: "If you add up all these mysterious deaths, it is likely that you believe in these spells, especially in the ancient Egyptian texts, there are so many spells like this." He smiled bitterly, and then said: "I don't believe in this evil. I have dealt with pharaoh's tombs and mummies all my life. Look, am I still alive today?..." Just four weeks after that conversation, Mehrer died suddenly at the age of 52.According to the doctor's judgment, he died of a heart attack.On the same day of his death, a team of workers came to the Cairo Museum to pack a batch of precious cultural relics into boxes.These cultural relics were excavated from the tomb of the famous Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun excavated in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. Among them, a 2.5-pound gold mask was originally put on Tutankhamun's incomparably noble head.

Curiously, the day Mehrer died was also the day Tutankhamun was disturbed. Of all the spells of the pharaohs, those of Tutankhamun stand out the most.It is said that before his tomb was discovered, some archaeologists died mysteriously, but they did not attract people's attention. Mr. Mehrer's violent death would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the following circumstances.This is the case: It was later discovered that at least 40 archaeologists had been implicated in the sudden deaths of Tutankhamun's tomb. Thus, the strange death of Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon in 1923, the famous archaeologist and financier and excavator of the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, aroused people's curiosity. " The "Pharaoh's spell" began to circulate in the scientific community and caused shock.

■Lucky Canary To many, the death of Earl Carnarvon was a very strange event: the only indication was that 5 months earlier, he had discovered King Tutankhamen's tomb and its Jewelry for wealth and preservation.Carnarvon's death came so quickly and so mysteriously that it inspired a frightening frenzy among sensitive pulp-fiction writers: Young King Tutankhamun's Quest for His Gravedigger—Tutankhamun's Curse. The link between Carnarvon and the tombs of ancient Egyptian royal families can be traced back 15 to 20 years. In 1901, when he was driving in Skowba Hot Springs, Germany, his car overturned unfortunately.A severe car accident damaged his chest, leaving him a semi-disabled man ever since.Having trouble breathing, doctors advised him to spend the winter in warm and dry Egypt, where he could escape the suffocating fog of England.In this way, Carnarvon came to Luxor, Egypt.This place was a well-known emerging tourist attraction at that time. It not only provided hotels and conveniences for various tours, but also organized groups to visit the excavations in the Valley of the Kings.

Because he was very fond of this trip to Egypt, Earl Carnarvon would come to Egypt every year, and even tried to conduct archaeological excavations himself. In 1907, Howard Carter became Carnarvon's technical advisor and head of engineering.Carter came to Egypt at the age of 17 and became the convener of the archaeologists.In addition, he worked for the Monuments and Monuments Service, overseeing the excavation of the Valley of the Kings.Now, Carnarvon pays Carter an annual salary of 400 pounds, and their goal is to find valuable cultural relics in some ancient tombs that have been regarded as useless.

For the next 15 years, including the turmoil of World War I, Carter continued to conduct research for Carnarvon. He accidentally discovered a very interesting ancient tomb.That is, the noble necropolis of Thebes, whose value is estimated to be around $4,000.But that hardly made up for the excavation, yet Carter managed to convince Carnarvon.For 10 years, from 1912 to 1922, Carter and Carnarvon found nothing after painstaking excavation work.For this reason, Carter made a special trip to visit Carnarvon in Highclere, England, persuaded him to dig for another season, and took a canary from Carnarvon.

When Carter returned to Luxor in late October, his Egyptian colleagues told him that canaries would bring good luck. On November 1, they began excavating the last untouched area in the Valley of the Kings—a 22-acre triangle. On November 4th, they found a stone staircase with 16 steps leading to the ground; on November 5th, they confirmed that it was a sealed ancient tomb. author and the seal of a little-known pharaoh: Tutankhamun. Excited, Carter asked the workers to close the entrance of the tomb and temporarily stopped the excavation work.He sent the following telegram to Carnarvon: "Finally, there is an amazing discovery in the valley: a very spectacular tomb. I have sealed the tomb and waited for you to come. My congratulations." After receiving the call, Carnarvon Feng immediately left the UK with his daughter Ai Wenlin. On November 22, Carnarvon reached the Valley of the Kings; on November 26, they cleared all obstacles and reopened the entrance to the tomb.

Enter the first door. Inside the door is a slope-like passage, which is full of gravel.At the end was another door, closed with a wall like the first, and bearing the same seal.After the rubble was cleared, Carter used trembling hands to remove a few stones from the second stone door, and inserted a candle through the hole.At first the heat of the tomb made the candles flicker, then strange animal figures and statues appeared, and here and there glittered with gold.Carter froze and didn't say a word.Years later, Carter still clearly remembered that Carnarvon asked him anxiously: "Did you see anything?" Still in shock, Carter could only reply: "Yes, I saw something miraculous. "

That night, they conducted a very secretive operation.In "Tutankhamen" written by Thomas Howard, there is such a record: "This is a story that cannot be told." Carnarvon, Ai Wenlin, Carter and their assistants sneaked into the ancient tomb and groped into it. inner room.They discovered the golden coffin that held the mummy of King Tutankhamun.Afterwards, people were very surprised when they saw the king in a close-fitting golden skirt and a headdress.The golden crown inlaid with diamonds and all kinds of gems set off the dignity of the king and his wife; the interior of the coffin is made of gold, which makes its weight need 8 men to pick it up; the golden mask on the mummy, obsidian, quartz stone Composed of vivid eyes, as well as headdress and beard used for decoration, the dead king resembles Osreet the Great, who is in charge of death. At this point Carter and Carnarvon knew exactly what they had found - one of the few remaining undiscovered tombs of King Tutankhamen of ancient Egypt.Over the next few days, they set about planning to open the outer chamber, clear the contents, and proudly announce their great discovery to the world. The excited workers suddenly encountered a worrying thing. The canary, which represented "lucky", was swallowed by a cobra at Carter's house near the mouth of the canyon.They are well aware of the ancient legends that are popular locally. According to legend, the Egyptian royal family was protected by a cobra - but they had to continue to develop the royal tomb. Henry Hyde, an early excavator, once described the Valley of the Kings as follows: "It is deep in the mountains, and it is a winding and narrow canyon jutting out from the gap in the desert; this desolate valley is surrounded by mountains around, full of death. The canyon looks very gloomy, only some greedy people have left footprints on the rocks. The dim headlights suggest the existence of life, but it is more like the ghost of the dead." This desolate scene was only transformed when thousands of tourists came to the Valley of the Kings to visit the population of Tutankhamun's tomb.Many tourists even want to allow them to enter the tomb.A local newspaper once described the scene at that time like this: The channel leading to the canyon is full of all kinds of vehicles every day. ■The Patron Saint of Vengeance Before entering Tutankhamun's tomb, Carter found a very ordinary-looking ceramic tablet.The hieroglyphs on the stele were translated by experts a few days later, and the content is creepy: for those who disturb the peace of the pharaoh, death will spread his wings on his head. At that time, the scholars who were present for the research did not care, but they were worried that the migrant workers would be frightened if the news spread, so the stele disappeared from the tomb and was erased from the written records.However, the pharaoh's spell appeared in another form.On the back of a god statue in the main tomb, there is the following line: As the guardian of the tomb of Tutan's middle gate, I use the debt of the desert to expel tomb robbers. In ancient Egypt, only the pharaoh (king), the representative of God, had the right to cast spells, so there were very few spells.It is said that in the passage of a mausoleum in Midum, a spell tablet was found, which read: The spirits of the dead will strangle grave robbers like twisting the neck of a goose.There were two corpses left in the tomb, one was the mummy of the owner of the tomb, and the other was pressed under the stone, and its hand reached for the ornaments on the mummy.This is the remains of a rogue hit by a spell. The first victim of the Pharaoh's spell was none other than the Count of Cavonne.The cause of the incident was unbelievably simple. When Earl Carnarvon was about to open the coffin in Tutankhamen's tomb, he was suddenly bitten by a poisonous mosquito. After that, Carnarvon's health became very bad.He looked extremely tired.Teeth were falling out, his body temperature was so erratic, it came and went, and he looked as if he had been stimulated by events that frightened him. He moved to Cairo in early March and his health improved. But soon fell ill again.His wife came to Cairo from England, and his son came from India. On March 20, Carnarvon's wife informed Carter that Carnarvon was suffering from scurvy, so Carter also rushed to Cairo. The following morning, over breakfast in a Cairo restaurant, Carnarvon said suddenly: "I feel a fever inside." The doctor found that his temperature was as high as 40 degrees. The next day, Carnarvon's temperature dropped a little, and the third day rose to 40 degrees. This situation continued for 12 days.According to doctors, the condition started when Carnarvon accidentally cut an old wound while shaving. On April 4, Carnarvon had been in a coma for a long time, and all his relatives and friends gathered at the Savoy Continental Hotel.They are all quietly waiting for the arrival of the last moment. Just before two o'clock in the morning, the nurse informed them that Carnarvon had passed away, and the hotel lights flickered and went out.Even the entire Cairo was cut off, and everyone was plunged into darkness. After 5 minutes, power was restored.Carnarvon’s son recalled: “At ten minutes to two in the middle of the night, the nurse came in and told me my father was dead. When I walked into his room, all the lights in the hospital suddenly went out. There was a brief power outage in Cairo, and they couldn’t find a reasonable explanation.” At the same time, something even stranger happened: Carnarvon’s foxhound in England also howled to death, which frightened Highclere Scottish doorman at the castle.Another unbelievable phenomenon is that Carnarvon's sister said in her memoirs: "Before he died, he had a high fever and kept yelling: 'I heard his calling, and I want to go with him'." Since then After that, Pharaoh's curse disappeared. As soon as Carnarvon, Death's Wing, died, the newspapers began to report the startling inscription carved at the entrance of the ancient tomb: "He who touches the ancient tomb dies"; "Death will accompany those who destroy the peace of the king." people".Such a curse seems to have been generally accepted.There is a legend among the crowd: "Anyone who ignores the sanctity of the ancient tomb will be entangled by Amus, the king of the great emperor, and he will suffer from hunger, thirst, fainting and disease.... I will prevent sand and stone from entering the secret stone. I will Here to protect the dead." Rumors, still trickling down, though few actually believe that the spirit of a king dead for 3,000 years can carry death into the twentieth century.There are also scientists who strongly condemn the so-called king's curse as meaningless.Carnarvon's son insisted that he did not believe in the existence of the curse, and he refused to explain the matter.But he also told Philip Vandenberg, author of "The Pharaoh's Curse", that shortly after his father's funeral, a woman came to Highclere Castle. Her name was Wilma.She said the spirit of his dead father haunted her and advised him not to go into his grave. Soon after, a large number of archaeologists and tourists who visited the tomb fell ill or died.Although we can reasonably explain it that some of them are old, some are already sick, and some have suffered from dust, heat, over-tiredness, etc. due to travelling, etc.James Henry.Professor Burrester, a scholar who once entered the inner chamber of the ancient tomb for research, experienced a persistent high fever, but he insisted on working for the ancient tomb for 12 years and did not die until he was 70 years old.But Professor Le Vermeer died on the first night when he came to Luxor to visit the ancient tomb. What's more, he and Professor Burroughs lived in the same hotel with two adjacent rooms Inside. The son of an American financier and millionaire George Jay Gold visited Luxor, and Carter accompanied him to visit Tutankhamen's tomb. On the second day, he died suddenly of a high fever.Carter's assistant A.C. Mays gave up his job in 1924 after suffering from a high fever and died four years later. His mother and a nurse who took care of her also died after being bitten by bugs ; Then another of Carter's assistants, Richard Betzel, died of a heart attack at the age of 45 in bed.His 87-year-old father jumped to his death from the seventh floor of his London home after hearing of his son's death.Then, on the way to the cemetery, the carriage pulling his coffin suddenly knocked down a boy and trampled him to death.Macy, an archaeologist invited by Carter to help with his work, fell into a coma for a long time for no reason and died in the same hotel where Carnarvon was staying.Another American industrialist named Marr also died of a high fever on the way home after visiting the mausoleum.After visiting the site of Tutankhamun's tomb, a rich man in South Africa jumped from his yacht into the calm Nile River inexplicably and drowned. Professor Archibald Reed, who was the first to untie the shroud of Tutankhamun and use X-rays to see his body, suddenly had a high fever after taking a few photos, and his body suddenly became extremely weak and had to die. If he did not return to London, he would soon die. And another archaeologist, Dr. Eplin Howayt, committed suicide a few days after leaving King Tutankhamun's tomb. He left the following last words for the world: "I left this world because of the curse of Pharaoh .” The strangest thing is that one morning in 1929, Carnarvon's widow, Mrs. Elizabeth, passed away. The cause of her death is intriguing.Like Carnarvon, she also died of insect stings, and even the sting site was on her left cheek, which was exactly the same as her husband who died 6 years ago. After citing countless examples, Vandenberg returned to the incantation that attracted worldwide attention: to those who disturbed the peace of the Pharaoh.On his head, death will spread its wings. What kind of spell is this?what does it meanAre these strange and mysterious chain deaths just a series of coincidences?Or is there some kind of law behind the coincidence?Did the priests take precautions to guard the pharaoh's tomb?Did the tomb contain some kind of poison, or germ-transmitting microbes that the pharaohs used to protect the remains, that continued to exert their power thousands of years later? Vandenberg's search for so-called death by spells of pharaohs did not stop there.He thought that since the pharaoh's spell was not limited to Tutankhamen's tomb, some archaeologists must have died before that.So, he buried his head in the voluminous archaeological records of the past, and once again found several "facts" that the pharaoh's spells were fulfilled, and the protagonists of the tragedy had spent many years in Egypt, which more or less involved the excavation of the pharaoh's body. tomb. One of the protagonists of the tragedy is the French legend Champollion (1790-1832).It is said that when he was 5 years old, he showed amazing language skills. In 1801, Champollion read a piece of news about the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon's army at the mouth of the Nile at the home of his cousin Goureon.There are three kinds of characters engraved on the stele: one is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script called Hero Griffith by the ancient Greeks, the other is the simplified Dimoteki script of Hero Griffith, and the other is the ancient Greek hieroglyphic script. arts. At the age of 12, Champollion made up his mind to solve the mystery of ancient Egyptian writing. On September 14, 1822, Champollion received several copies of the pharaoh's inscription, and he immediately deciphered a few words. "I succeeded! I succeeded!" He shouted happily to his brother Jacques, then raised his hands high, fell to the ground like a lightning strike, and was unconscious for 5 consecutive days.When he regained consciousness, he talked of seeing strange phenomena in his coma, and muttered incessantly the names of several pharaohs he recognized.On September 27 of the same year, he announced to the Paris Academy of Sciences that he had uncovered the mystery of ancient Egyptian writing.He holds the title of Professor of Egyptology. In 1827, under the patronage of the King of France, he led a French expedition to Egypt.His childhood dream came true, but his death sentence was also pronounced. In 1832, he returned to France, and died suddenly of apoplexy and paralysis at the age of 42. After citing many examples, Vandenberg said that by studying these examples, three causes of death can be drawn: fever, comatose death; stroke, breakdown of the blood circulatory system; sudden cancer. However, Vandenberg had to admit that the main excavator of Tutankhamun's tomb, Carter, who made the tomb his home, was an exception.He was the longest-lived gravedigger at the age of 66.Why was Pharaoh so magnanimous to Carter, the culprit who disturbed him, that death did not come to him?Vandenberg's long studies have never been able to solve this mystery, and he is only believed to be a famous exception. ■ Khrushchev's surrender The above talk is about the pharaoh's spells in the tombs of non-pyramids, so what about the situation of the pyramids?Vandenberg also cited several examples.He said: The two archaeologists who had been working in the pyramid for many years died so suddenly that even people who did not believe in spells linked their death with their work.One is American professor George Ressler.He engaged in archaeological work in the pyramid area in the 1920s and 1930s, and the most important discovery was the tomb of Hatep Fors, the mother of Khufu, next to the Great Pyramid.He also became the first person in radio history to broadcast from the Pyramid in 1939. In the spring of 1942, he suddenly fell into the pyramid.They carried him out of the tower and put him in a tent that served as a tool store.He never regained consciousness and eventually died there.The other is the British archaeologist Flinder Picjo. In 1941, on his way home from Cairo, he died unexpectedly in Jerusalem. Vandenberg also described an incident he had personally witnessed. In 1972, he visited the Pyramid of Khufu for the last time.At the entrance of Khufu's tomb, a Spanish lady suddenly screamed loudly and fell on the threshold, unable to move.Her convulsions disappeared immediately after they lifted her out of the mouth.Vandenberg asked her how she felt.She said she seemed to have been hit by something.An Egyptian tour guide told him from the sidelines that such "shocks" had happened more than once. Vandenberg also revealed a secret. In May 1946, Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union visited Egypt and stayed in a noble hotel not far from the Great Pyramid.On the second day after arriving in Cairo, when he was about to visit the Pyramid of Khufu, he received an urgent telegram from Moscow, and the KGB demanded that he "absolutely not enter the pyramid".Khrushchev obeyed. What were Soviet intelligence agencies afraid of?Worried about the pharaoh's spell?The Soviet Union did not provide an explanation. It is said that the strange phenomena in the pyramid are not limited to those mentioned above.For example, a reporter stayed in the tomb for a while, and then got sick after coming out.Dozens of students who entered the tomb died after being bewitched by an electric shock.After some western tourists went in, they fell to the ground and shouted: "Help! Help! I want to get out." Some fell to death on the spot. After introducing all the above situations, what is the pharaoh's spell?Where is its answer?Vandenberg tried to find the cause from the poisons, bacteria and radiation in Egypt, Africa, Europe and other places.He said: On November 3, 1961, Zadin Taha, a professor of physics at the University of Cairo, held an extraordinary press conference.He has the amazing news to announce that he has found the secret to the pharaoh's spell, or at least one of the reasons for it. For a long time, Professor Taha has conducted physical examinations on museum archaeologists and staff, and he found that many people were infected with a bacterium that caused inflammation of the respiratory system.In fact, archaeologists have long noticed that there is an "ancient Egyptian rash" strange symptoms.The patient had difficulty breathing and red spots appeared on the skin, but no one paid enough attention to it.People who suffer from this disease are limited to those who often deal with ancient Egyptian papyrus. At the press conference, Professor Taha introduced some dangerous infectious bacteria.There is a kind of bacteria that has lived in mummies, tombs and pyramids for three or four thousand years. Taha announced: "This discovery completely dispels the superstition that some tomb diggers died of spells. They died of illnesses at work. If anyone still believes that Pharaoh's spells have supernatural powers, it is purely It’s just a fairy tale.” Taha finally said that these discoveries were observed under an electron microscope and may not fully solve the mystery of the Pharaoh’s spell, because infectious bacteria were not the only cause of death of these scholars. Taha's research work could have led to more beneficial results, unfortunately shortly after the press conference he himself fell victim to a pharaoh's spell which he denied. The incident happened on the desert road from Cairo to Suez City.Taha drove to Suez City with two assistants.At a distance of 70 kilometers from Cairo, the car he was driving suddenly veered to the left and hit an oncoming car.Taha and his assistant were killed instantly.An autopsy revealed that he had suffered a heart attack. ■Other explanations Vandenberg said that there is no doubt that attributing the pharaoh's spell to a bacterial infection has won the approval of many scientists.The possibility that archaeologists who have worked underground for a long time to be poisoned by parasites is great.But, assuming the pharaoh's spells were used to protect the tombs of kings, it might be more practical to use poison.First Dynasty of Egypt (c. 1200 BC) The first king, Meina, was an adept at growing poisonous crops.However, the most famous poisoning expert in Egyptian history was Cleopatra, the last queen of the Ptolemy dynasty (332-30 AD).According to legend, she often experimented with poisons on captives.Her Roman lover Mark Antony (an ancient Roman commander, 82-30 B.C.) was always on tenterhooks every time he ate with her.At one point, there was a dramatic interlude between them.Cleopatra plucked a flower from her hair, put it in Anthony's wine glass, and asked him to drink it to express his sincere love.Anthony thought that this glass of wine had already been tasted by others, so it would not be a problem, so he raised his glass and wanted to drink it.Then she snatched the cup and let a prisoner come up to drink.As soon as the man finished drinking, he fell to the ground and died.Cleopatra said to Anthony in a victorious posture: "I have poisoned the flowers. As long as I want to kill you, I can poison you at any time. It is useless for you to guard against it." But then again.The virus doesn't have to be imported from the mouth, it can also develop through skin contact.The pigments of the colorful murals in the mausoleum contain highly toxic substances such as arsenic.Additionally, potentially poisonous gases condensed inside the pharaoh's tomb. Dip the wick in a solution of arsenic, which is the easiest way to make poisonous gas.After this kind of candle is lit, the gas it emits is enough to kill a person.In the unventilated pharaoh's tomb, this poisonous gas can condense for a long time.Did the priests evacuate and seal the tomb after they lit poisonous candles? The ancient Egyptians were very afraid of the "corpse poison" emitted by the corpse when it decomposed.Some ancient books say that ancient doctors knew to use oil and honey, or the excrement of maidens, cats, donkeys and pigs to detoxify dead bodies.Can the poisonous rope be preserved in the tomb for hundreds or thousands of years and still be effective?Generally speaking, under the action of light, air and sunlight, the toxicity of ordinary poisons will disappear within a few years.But the poison can last for centuries, especially in an airtight space.Pharaohs' underground rock catacombs and chambers in pyramids are good breeding grounds for bacteria.Most bacteria depend on plants and animals for their nutrients: fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.For a long time, archaeologists have wondered why mummies are black. The answer is the result of bacteria.The grease and turpentine applied to the surface of the corpse decomposed, generating heat that charred and blackened the mummy. How long can bacteria live?Can its deadly properties be maintained for thousands of years?Is the pharaoh's spell a kind of artificially arranged biochemical virus that has been spreading in the pharaoh's tomb for thousands of years. Chemists and bacteriologists believe this could be an explanation for the magician's spell.It is true that some bacteria can live for hundreds of years, and some bacteria in the human body secrete venom when they die, causing people to infect people with diseases, especially meningitis.There are also bacteria attached to the mummies, secrete venom when they are alive, and infect diphtheria and other diseases. Besides the virus, is there any other explanation for the pharaoh's spell?Vandenberg said: In 1949, a talk published by the famous atomic scientist Louis Bagreni surprised archaeologists.He said: "I think the ancient Egyptians knew the law of atomic decomposition, and their priests and wise men were very clear about the properties of uranium. It is possible to protect their holy places with atomic radiation." This means that the pharaoh's spell is fulfilled by radiation ?Bagreni did not rule out the possibility.He went on to say: "There may be uranium under the tomb, or the tomb itself is made of radioactive stones. This radiation can kill people today, or at least damage people's health." Uranium-containing uranium was found in central Egypt Ore, increased this possibility. ■Wake up from a deep sleep If the saying that Lao's spells come from radioactive substances, then these substances may be the mummy's talismans and decorations.This also explains the deaths of some tomb diggers and the biggest shipwreck of the century. On April 14, 1912, the British passenger ship "Titanic" hit an iceberg and sank during its maiden voyage from England to New York.1,500 people on board died at the bottom of the sea.The ship was known as the most beautiful, largest, fastest and unsinkable giant ship in the world at that time.Captain Edward Smith played a mysterious and suspicious role in this incident.He is an experienced crew and a first-rate captain, otherwise he would not have held this important post.However, on the day of the accident, judging from the route he chose, the unusual high-speed driving, the way he called for help, and the announcement of the rescue plan at the last minute, his behavior was very strange. The ship carried more than 2,200 passengers, 40 tons of potatoes, 12,000 bottles of mineral water... and an Egyptian mummy destined for the United States.This mummy is the remains of a priestess from the 18th Dynasty, who was found wearing various talismans and ornaments.Under the mummy's head was a charm with a picture of Osiris, the god of death, and a line of inscriptions: wake up from your deep sleep, and you can overcome everything that hurts you with a single glance. This mummy is too precious.It was not placed in the cargo hold, but was placed behind the captain's command room.Many people who deal with mummies have become insane. Could it be that Captain Smith was poisoned by radioactivity and became a victim of the spell? Vandenberg said that Egyptology experts have not been able to give a clear answer to this.Until now there has been no evidence that the ancient Egyptians knew about radioactivity, but there is also no evidence that they would not have used the radiation. Cosmic rays have been used in archaeology. In 1965, Nobel Prize winner Louis Falz decided to use cosmic rays to investigate the Pyramid of Khafre to detect whether there are other stone chambers or corridors in the tower. Falz's idea is that cosmic rays pass through the atmosphere and retain their ability to penetrate, including through the stones of the pyramids.If the measuring instrument is placed in the tower, the different conditions of cosmic rays passing through space and rocks can be measured, because the resistance of air is much smaller than that of rocks. The best place to install the instrument is the tomb discovered by the Italian archaeologist Bizuni.It is located in the center of the tower base, 130 meters from the top of the tower.The total weight of the instrument is 30 tons.Since the inner corridor of the tower is only 1.2 meters wide, it had to be disassembled and reassembled in the tomb. Measurements began in the spring of 1958 and took several months.The data recorded on the tape is analyzed by a computer at Cairo University and then projected on a screen.A black shadow was clearly displayed on the screen. Everyone present was very excited and thought it was a stone room, but later it was discovered that the black shadow was just the reflection of the measuring instrument. Falz concluded that there were no other chambers in the Pyramid of Khafre.During this measurement, Falz accidentally discovered that there is an unknown energy in the tower that affects the normal operation of the instrument, making the data obtained in each measurement different. The same happens in the tomb.Some American scientists used radiocarbon to measure the age of the mummy, and the result was 500 years earlier than the actual age of the mummy.Sophisticated instruments failed in the mausoleum.A mysterious power resides within the pyramids and tombs. Vandenberg said at the end of the book "Pharaoh's Spells": "This book is not trying to prove that the pharaoh's spells are true, but to explore some known facts and lead to various hypotheses. Whether the pharaohs put their tombs A trap designed to be death? How did they design it? Using poison stored in the tomb? Or radioactive material? Or cosmic energy with strong radiation? How correct are these hypotheses? The pharaoh's spell is rooted in the history of ancient Egypt A phenomenon in which there is as yet no convincing answer..." In Vandenberg's pen, we can see that the so-called pharaoh's spells are ceramic tablets with inscriptions, talismans and ornaments worn by the pharaoh's remains, and then expanded to mummies, tombs and pyramids.These forms of incantations were responsible for a string of deaths among archaeologists and even tourists who entered the tombs and pyramids only once, and the curses still haunt the pyramids today. ■The recent murder of the Pharaoh's tomb in the mist has always been a mystery.Outside of Vandenberg, many scientists have conducted many investigations on these mysterious deaths, and found that at least 6 of these dead were directly related to the visit.Some people say that there is a layer of pink, gray and green things on the walls of the tomb passage, which is a death ray, and the substances emitted by it can kill people.Some people believe that there is an unknown bacteria or body sleep virus in the tomb. Once visitors come into contact with them, they will be put to death. But those claims were never proven. A French female doctor, Philip, once put forward a new explanation for the murder in the Pharaoh's tomb after a detailed investigation. The cause of death is the same: lung infection, suffocation.死者是由于参观，对墓中霉索过敏反应造成的。她说，在古埃及，法老死后，墓中存放许多水果、蔬菜和食品，这些食物天长日久便腐烂成为有机物质，霉菌由此产生。这霉菌在墓中可生存上千年，变为细微尘埃粘在墓壁上。过去一些盗墓者到墓中偷金银财宝，吸到霉菌尘埃，出来后，肺部便急性发炎，肺气孔堵塞，最后因呼吸困难而死。 最近，埃及开罗大学医学教授穆罕默德?萨伯特经过多年研究，得出了最新结论。 他认为，法老墓中置人于死地的东西其实是一种核辐射，这种核辐射是古埃及人在制造木乃伊时所使用的一种原料散发出的，主要用来防止盗墓。萨伯特用探测仪在埃及博物馆里收藏的一具法老木乃伊身上做放射试验时，测出强烈的核辐射波。他认为，这种核辐射波足以对人体造成伤害，特别是那些长期去法老墓地进行研究的考古学家。 萨伯特的发现在埃及引起一阵风波。埃及考古学会研究室主任纳斯里?埃斯坎德指出，萨伯特的观点有一定的道理，因为在1988年，考古学家在胡夫金字塔内进行研究时，在通向墓室的墙壁沙土里测出核辐射波，但当时没有人重视，因这种带核辐射的沙石在埃及的沙漠里也有。古埃及人是否在制作木乃伊时使用了带有辐射的原料，抑或是当时的人已经掌握了核辐射技术？我们就不得而知了。 法老图坦卡门的致命诅咒引起轰动的最近一次事例，是使一组在埃及拍摄其墓穴70周年挖掘纪念的电视纪录片摄制人员的生活如遭梦魇。 他们是为英国电视拍特辑的，这个任务对他们来说犹如一场恶梦，他们经受了一场可怕的沙暴及一些接近死亡的灾难。 当所乘的电梯电缆突然断裂，冲下21层以下的地面时，BBC 电影公司的两个成员几乎毙命。克里斯托弗?弗罗林和大卫?威拉斯当时刚刚完成为时一周的在图坦卡门墓穴的艰苦工作。弗罗林回忆道：“那真是太可怕了，我被钉在地上，大卫却靠着墙。我们一动不能动。我抬头看看法老，他手持一把钢锯刀正眼睛盯着下面。整个过程是我所知的最离奇的经历。”弗罗林是皇家艺术学院的文化历史教授。 另外两个富有经验的拍摄人员进入那古怪的墓穴时，突然手电筒离奇出故障，他们被困于黑暗的洞穴里面。几天以后，全体拍摄人员都遭到了突然刮起的沙暴，生命处于极端危险中。 那一连串奇异的事都是与发现埃及帝王古墓地有关的一系列事件中的最近几宗怪事。 去埃及拍片的BBC摄制人员都知道，看过那个3500年前的君主的人都有死亡的危险。