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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio. Man,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Coast to Coast George nor back with

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Speaker 1: the psychic lawyer Mark Anthony Mark. We were talking about

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Speaker 1: the archaeologist Howard Carter in his Little Canary. I'll let

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Speaker 1: you finish that story, okay. So Carter shows up at

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Speaker 1: the tomb in the morning of November fourth, in nobody's working,

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Speaker 1: and an eerie silence filled the air. So Carter knew

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Speaker 1: one or two things happened. Somebody had been killed where

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Speaker 1: they found something, and one of the Egyptian workers ran

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Speaker 1: up to him and they said, we found something. And

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Speaker 1: so they found a single step in the sand. So

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Speaker 1: feverishly they started uncovering the sand and they found sixteen

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Speaker 1: steps leading. Wow that much sand. Wow, a lot of sand.

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Speaker 1: And you know, there's sixty three. To date, there have

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Speaker 1: been sixty three tombs found in the Valley of the Kings,

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Speaker 1: and all of them had been plundered. So Carter was

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Speaker 1: expecting another empty tomb. And then they find the door

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the steps, and Carter's heart almost

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Speaker 1: stopped because the seal on the door, the clay seal

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Speaker 1: Tooton common, so he is like shaking immediately he gets back.

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Speaker 1: He wants to get back to his house, so he

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Speaker 1: could notify Lord Carnabam. But at the precise moment that

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Speaker 1: they discovered the tomb. Meanwhile, back at Carter's house, a

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Speaker 1: cobra had slithered into his home and got into the cage,

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Speaker 1: and with the canary and his staff ran in and

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Speaker 1: they saw the cobra devouring canary. And the Egyptians were

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Speaker 1: a cobra, which was the symbol of the Pharaohs. So

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Speaker 1: the staff realized this was an evil omen Well three

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Speaker 1: weeks later and you know, can you imagine how nerve

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Speaker 1: wracking it must have been for Carter to wait for

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Speaker 1: the ship to go from England to Egypt bringing a

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Speaker 1: Lord Karnavin and his daughter Lady Evelyn. So there they

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Speaker 1: are at the tomb, and they found beyond that door

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Speaker 1: they opened up that door there was another thirty foot hallway.

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Speaker 1: So it took an entire day to get all the

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Speaker 1: debris and the sand out of there, and they found

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Speaker 1: another sealed door So what happened George's Carter made a

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Speaker 1: small hole in the upper left corner of the doorway.

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Speaker 1: He held up a candle to test the air, and

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Speaker 1: they said that the air that came out was hot,

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Speaker 1: and it smelled faintly of oil and perfume, which I

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Speaker 1: always thought was kind kind of cool. So, in his

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Speaker 1: own words, and this comes from Carter's book, The Tomb

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Speaker 1: of Two in Common, he described what happened next. He said,

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Speaker 1: for the moment, an eternity, it must have seemed to

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Speaker 1: the others standing by. I was struck dumb with amazement.

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Speaker 1: And when Lord Karnabin, unable to stand the suspense any longer,

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Speaker 1: inquired anxiously, can't you see anything? It was all I

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Speaker 1: could do to get out the words, yes, wonderful things.

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Speaker 1: So then Lord Karnabin and Lady Evelyn look in and

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Speaker 1: they are just flabbergasted. Everywhere was the glimmer of gold.

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Speaker 1: The room they peered into was packed with chariots, statues,

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Speaker 1: Lennen's jewelry, beds, couches, chairs, a throne. Nobody had ever

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Speaker 1: seen anything like this for thousands of years pristine too,

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Speaker 1: I bet well. From what they could tell the tomb

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Speaker 1: had been rated on two occasions. Some thieves had come

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Speaker 1: in and taken small things, but even so, over fifty

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Speaker 1: three hundred objects were found. And because I know, we

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Speaker 1: want to get to the curse, but I got to

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Speaker 1: cover this real quick. It took ten years to get

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Speaker 1: everything out of the tomb. Carter brought the best experts

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Speaker 1: they wanted to make is complete and calculated in inventory.

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Speaker 1: And when they finally got to the giant sarcophagus where

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Speaker 1: why it was a wooden coffin. Well, there were three coffins.

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Speaker 1: then the inner coffin, the second coffin. But the third coffin,

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Speaker 1: now they knew why it was so heavy. It was

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pounds of solid gold. Wow, well

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Speaker 1: you know what that would be worth today, Mark, I

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Speaker 1: and on his mummy is the famous golden death mask. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this surpassed anything anyone's wildest imagination. But the

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Speaker 1: most disturbing thing found in the tomb George were two

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Speaker 1: Anka Sonaman, who was a teenager, his half sister, wrote

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Speaker 1: begging him to send one of his sons a prince

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Speaker 1: this is just amazing that they found this. And the

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Speaker 1: and basically begging him, please don't let me be forced

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Speaker 1: of his sons. Well, the son never makes it to Egypt.

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Speaker 1: That appears he was ambushed murdered on the way. Now

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Speaker 1: that this touched off a war, a twenty year war

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Speaker 1: and to date, her tomb, her mummy, inscriptions about her

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Speaker 1: this was the logical conclusion of a plot by the

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Speaker 1: priests of Egypt and the ancient religion to eradicate any

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Speaker 1: trace of Teuton Kamen's family and certainly his father, the

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Speaker 1: heretic pharaoh that suppressed the religion in Egypt at the time.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we may never know, but it's certainly,

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Speaker 1: certainly was captivating. Now they just about wanted to wipe

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Speaker 1: out that entire dynasty, didn't they exactly. So Meanwhile, back

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties, this is the biggest story in

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Speaker 1: and Bethel's father, Lord Westbury, said he wrote a suicide note,

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Speaker 1: I can't stand any more of the horrors, you know,

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Speaker 1: my god, yeah, so and so. But you're saying the

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Speaker 1: curse tablet was made up. Never existence was made up.

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Speaker 1: But the media was going crazy with this, you know,

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Speaker 1: and everybody was chiming in, like why are all these

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Speaker 1: Arthur Conan Doyle, and I know he's talked about probably

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Speaker 1: creator of Sherlock Holmes. His names come up, pits come up. Sure,

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Speaker 1: he was also a psychic medium. Well, he even chimed

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Speaker 1: they even sprinkled radio act of uranium. Now, these are

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Speaker 1: But the thing is, so many people died within close

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Speaker 1: And we don't have the time tonight, but I'd love

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Speaker 1: silver pharaoh sus Ends the first that was another the

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Speaker 1: only other intact pharaoh's tomb ever discovered, and I was

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Speaker 1: able to closely examine the gold collar taken off his

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Speaker 1: mum mummy, nineteen pounds of solid gold in this necklace.

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Speaker 1: So but but the thing is nothing has ever rivaled,

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Speaker 1: nothing has come close to what they found in Tuton

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Speaker 1: Common's tomb. And the thing is, George, there's sixty three tombs,

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Speaker 1: i think sixty four that we've discovered so far in

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Speaker 1: the Valley of the Kings, all of them them. Plunder

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Speaker 1: Tutan Commons was the only one intact. Sus Ends was

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Speaker 1: found at a different location in northern Egypt, but King

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Speaker 1: Tut's tomb was the smallest tomb. See, I'm convinced Mark

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Speaker 1: that relics, maybe even the Ark of the Covenant are

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Speaker 1: possible because with the Ark of the Covenant the city

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Speaker 1: But within that tomb there were two other pharaohst buried

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Speaker 1: And the thing is, this tomb was completely intact In fact,

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Speaker 1: sus Ends was buried. His coffin was solid silver, which

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Speaker 1: was even more precious in ancient Egypt because Egypt had

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Speaker 1: to import silver whereas gold. They mind and Shashank is

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Speaker 1: extremely important because he's named in the Bible. In the

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Speaker 1: First Book of Kings, Chapter fourteen, verses twenty five through

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Speaker 1: twenty six, it states Shishak, king of Egypt, attacked Jerusalem

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Speaker 1: in the movie Raiders of the Lost Arc, they used

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Speaker 1: which we know was housed in the Great Temple in Jerusalem.

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Speaker 1: In Raiders Lost Arc they said it was captured and

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Speaker 1: taken to the city of Tannis, which was shish Acts

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Speaker 1: about Professor Pierremontet Remember in Raiders Lost Ark, the villain

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Speaker 1: was the French archaeologist Renee Bellak. Pierremontet is who they

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Speaker 1: based um Indiana Jones Nemesis Renee bellach On. I got

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Speaker 1: the biggest kick out of that when when I found that.

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Speaker 1: So so it is entirely possible that the Lost Arc

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Speaker 1: could be in Tannis. There's other theories that it is

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Speaker 1: housed in Ethiopia, um in a church, in a church

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Speaker 1: lot of mystery and surrounding that. I even talked to

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Speaker 1: a priest from Ethiopia who said that he actually um

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Speaker 1: hear that. There's other thoughts that it may be under

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Speaker 1: um the Dome Rock in Jerusalem, but that's under a

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Speaker 1: Muslim sanctuary, so no excavations would be permitted there. So certainly,

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Speaker 1: you know, the lost arc Um of the Covenant, you know,

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Speaker 1: it arises all sorts of mystery and excitement, and that

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Speaker 1: two is a very anomalous artifact that you know, maybe

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