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Speaker 1: Davies's team had been excavating a sight near the tomb

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Speaker 1: side of the room that was flanked by two life

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Speaker 1: Carter held up the candle light to their faces, illuminating

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Speaker 1: the sacred cobras set into their crowns right under their gaze.

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Speaker 1: He made another small hole, just large enough to squeeze through,

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Speaker 1: and then Carter, Carnarvon, and Evelyn made their way into

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Speaker 1: the next room, a cramped space taken up by what

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Speaker 1: seemed like a vast golden box. They had found it,

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Speaker 1: the king's final resting place, with the seal to its

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Speaker 1: entrance still intact. This now being highly illegal. The three

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Speaker 1: of them slipped back into the ante chamber and covered

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Speaker 1: up the hole. Returning to the surface, an exhilarated Carter

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Speaker 1: and Carnarvin congratulated each other on their find, but found

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Speaker 1: themselves strangely subdued as they made their way to their

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Speaker 1: respective beds that night. With the moment they had craved

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Speaker 1: for so many years having finally arrived, it was as

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Speaker 1: if something of the wander in the world had vanished forever.

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Speaker 1: Within days, news of the find had made its way

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Speaker 1: around the globe, and Carter and Lord Carnarvon became overnight celebrities,

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Speaker 1: their extraordinary rediscovery roundly heralded as one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: in history. As protocol dictated, it would be some months

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Speaker 1: before Carter was able to access the burial chamber, as

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Speaker 1: all objects in the first room needed to be removed

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Speaker 1: and documented first. Over the next few weeks, a number

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Speaker 1: of dignitaries would come from far and wide to view

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Speaker 1: the tomb for themselves. On December third, Lord Carnarvon returned

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Speaker 1: home to wait out the next phase, where he found

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Speaker 1: a bizarre message waiting for him. It had been sent

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Speaker 1: by the self styled Count Louis l Warner Hammon, otherwise

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Speaker 1: known as world renowned fortune teller, self described clairvoyant Kiro,

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Speaker 1: the apparent psychic, born William John Warner in Ireland in

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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty six, had made quite a name for himself,

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Speaker 1: having apparently successfully foretold a number of recent events, from

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Speaker 1: the signing of the Bowful Declaration to the failure of

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Speaker 1: Sir Ernest Shackleton's second expedition to the Antarctic. His message

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Speaker 1: to Carnarvon was a warning delivered to him, he maintained,

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Speaker 1: in the form of automatic writing from one of King

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Speaker 1: tutank Aarman's sisters. It was a plea that he not

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Speaker 1: remove anything from the king's tomb, or else he would

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Speaker 1: suffer an injury, a sickness from which he would never recover,

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Speaker 1: and that death would claim him in Egypt. Undoubtedly shaken

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Speaker 1: by the message, Carnarvin nonetheless returned to Egypt in January

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Speaker 1: to witness the formal opening of the burial chamber, which

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Speaker 1: took place on February the sixteenth. Soon after, proceedings were

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Speaker 1: halted again when Carter and Carnarvin had a falling out

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Speaker 1: over the management of the site. Since the tomb's initial

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Speaker 1: rediscovery the treasure within it had become the subject of

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Speaker 1: much diplomatic wrangling over who in fact owned it, with

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Speaker 1: it eventually being declared the property of the Egyptian state.

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Speaker 1: The pair were later reconciled after Carnarvon apologized to Carter.

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Speaker 1: One month later, Lord Carnarvon was bitten by a mosquito.

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Speaker 1: He had all but forgotten the bite until he cut

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Speaker 1: himself on it shortly after whilst shaving. Within days, the

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Speaker 1: cut became infected and he developed sepsis. Over the next

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Speaker 1: few weeks, his body struggled to fight the infection, and

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Speaker 1: by early April, the Lord was complete ely bedridden. At

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Speaker 1: his suite in the Savoy Hotel in Cairo. At shortly

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Speaker 1: after midnight on April fifth, a strong gust of wind

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Speaker 1: swept through the city of Cairo, rattling the shutters outside

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Speaker 1: the Lord's bedroom. Inside, a weary Carnavin watched with concern

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Speaker 1: as the lights of his suite flickered out, as did

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Speaker 1: all the lights in fact in the city, plunging it

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Speaker 1: into total darkness. By the time they had come back

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Speaker 1: on barely minutes later, Lord Carnarvon was dead. Electricians working

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Speaker 1: the city's power terminal the following day, will fail to

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Speaker 1: find any obvious cause for the blackout. On hearing of

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Speaker 1: the death, Author Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the

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Speaker 1: first to suggest that Carnavin had been the victim of

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Speaker 1: a curse, having broken into the sanctity of a pharaoh's tomb.

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Speaker 1: He will not be the last, and nor would Lord

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Speaker 1: Carnarvon be the only apparent victim of such a curse.

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Speaker 1: Over the next few months, a number of people linked

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Speaker 1: to the discovery of the tomb died in strange or

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Speaker 1: unexpected circumstances, such as twenty three year old Prince Ali

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Speaker 1: Camel Farmi Bay, who was shot dead by his wife

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Speaker 1: Marie Marguerite on July tenth, shortly after he had visited

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Speaker 1: the tomb. Aubrey Herbert Carnarvon's half brother, had also visited

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Speaker 1: the tomb, surely before a routine dental operation led to

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Speaker 1: a fatal blood poisoning. He also died that same year.

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Speaker 1: In September. The following month, Captain Richard Bethel, Howard Carter's

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Speaker 1: forty six year old secretary, was found dead in bed

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Speaker 1: of a suspected heart attack, the cause of death ultimately

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Speaker 1: being unconfirmed. Over the next ten years, as many as

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Speaker 1: eleven people would die apparent victims of the curse. Howard Carter,

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Speaker 1: who had no patience for superstition and wild talk of

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Speaker 1: ancient curses, would live for another sixteen years before dying

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Speaker 1: of Hodgkin's disease at the age of sixty four. Those

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Speaker 1: who knew about the ominous warning sent to Lord Carnarvon

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Speaker 1: by the psychic Key Roe were left to wander if

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Speaker 1: there had been any truth to his claim. Perhaps they

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Speaker 1: had unsettled the pharaoh's spirit after all by disturbing his grave,

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Speaker 1: or perhaps by taking something that wasn't theirs to take.

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Speaker 1: Carnarvin and Howard's insistence that they didn't at any point

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Speaker 1: steal anything from inside the tomb seemed to negate the

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Speaker 1: second point. At least sixty five years after Carnavin's death,

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Speaker 1: High Claire Castle became the property of the fifth Earl's grandson, Henry.

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Speaker 1: It having fallen to him to carry out an inventory

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Speaker 1: of the family estate. He called in his father's retired butler,

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Speaker 1: Robert Taylor, to help with the review. Having finally detailed

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Speaker 1: every last item in the house, Henry assumed that everything

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Speaker 1: had been accounted for. Well, that is everything, said Taylor,

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Speaker 1: except for the Egyptian stuff. I'm sure just what Taylor meant.

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Speaker 1: The former butler proceeded to lead Henry to a pair

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Speaker 1: of small, ornate doors that had long ago been blocked

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Speaker 1: off with furniture. After removing the tables and chairs, Taylor

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Speaker 1: opened the doors to reveal a long forgotten, dark and

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Speaker 1: dusty passageway. Henry followed Taylor inside, who stopped in front

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Speaker 1: of a set of panels in the wall, opening them

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Speaker 1: to reveal a secret storage space behind inside, which was

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Speaker 1: stored a number of sealed tins. Henry would later open them,

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Speaker 1: discovering a collection of over three hundred ancient Egyptian artifacts,

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Speaker 1: a secret that Lord Carnarvon had taken to his grave.

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