1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: and makes this stuff you should know the podcast. I'm 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: walking like an Egyptian Worth. You nailed that too, Jerry 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: and now were singing the old Steve Martin King tut 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: song and you were like, what is that? I know 9 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: what it is? And I'm young. I don't know that. 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: I don't know the lyrics. Yeah, you were. You were 11 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: on the cusp there, that was. That was a big 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: deal when I was a kid, And I was like 13 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: to when I think when that came out? Yeah, he 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: missed it by a few years. Yeah, I mean, it 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: wasn't like twenty five and going to see Steve Martin 16 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: or anything, what I like sixty. So, Chuck, I know 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: you're familiar with Steve Martin, but are you familiar with 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: a little boy king by the name of King two 19 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: tongue common, Yes, I am, are you? Yeah, Well, let's 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: wrap about him. Man, did you go see the exhibit? No? No, 21 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: the Discovery one in Times Square. Well it travels you know. 22 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,839 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, you we saw that one. I didn't 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: see it though it saw bodies, so that was pretty neat. 24 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: I think I told you about that. I didn't see 25 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,839 Speaker 1: bodies yet. I did the dialogue in the Dark. Yeah, 26 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: we talked about this. Yeah, bodies was pretty cool. But 27 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: you're like, wow, this is really nuts. Yeah, um, but no, 28 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: I didn't see King Tych did you? Did you know 29 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: there's a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit now in Times Square? 30 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: Discovery has you know, Discovery has like this basically like 31 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: a museum, like an exhibition show in Times Square and 32 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: the newest one is the Dead Sea Scrolls. Like the 33 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: Dead Sea Scrolls are there in Times Square right now. 34 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: You can sign your name on it, right Yeah, all right, 35 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: Well let's get back to King Tut because we got 36 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: a little off topic. If you ask me, um, I'm 37 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: gonna tell you what I know about King Tutt, and 38 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: then you tell me what you know and we'll combine 39 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: the two. So like, for example, um, I found out 40 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: that King Tut was an Avid chariot racer. Did you 41 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: know that he was buried apparently in tombed I should say, 42 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: with six chariots. It's kind of like you're uber wealthy 43 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: boy president, right, who's like sixteen and then you know 44 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: dies at a eighteen is buried with like his eight 45 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: camaros or something. That's kind of what they did with 46 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: King Tutt. He was also an avid ostrich hunter. He 47 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: used to hunt in the desert with just him and 48 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: his dog. Is pretty cool. Um. He also married his 49 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: sister and had two babies with their both of the 50 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,679 Speaker 1: both of which were um born prematurely and dyed. Yeah, 51 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: there's a lot of inbreeding going on back then. Yeah, 52 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 1: there's a lot of rumors that he was in bred, 53 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: or a lot of speculation or I should say a 54 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: lot of factual conjecture that he was him self also inbred. Um. 55 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: And they think that there's this huge mystery going on 56 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: right now that he was club footed. Did you know that. 57 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: I did not know that. So they think that he 58 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: may have been club footed, which would definitely support the 59 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: inbreeding UM argument, not that people who have club feed 60 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: are inbred, but I think if you are inbred, you're 61 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: likelier to have something like a club foot. But they 62 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 1: can't tell. It looks like he's club footed, but his 63 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: his cadavers. Corpse has been so mistreated over the decades 64 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: since it was discovered that, Um, they can't tell if 65 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: somebody just broke his foot or if he was born 66 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: that way club foot? Is that all yet? Yeah, that's 67 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: all right, we should boy it. Uh. He was short. 68 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: He had a weird shaped head. Have you ever seen 69 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: a skull? Uh, it's it looks like an egg. It's 70 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: really weird looking. And they measured it and found that 71 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: it just qualifies as quote normal. But he Uh. All 72 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: all the paintings back then showed all the pharaohs and 73 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: the Egyptian pharaohs had these weird shaped heads, and they thought, well, 74 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: those are just the artist. But then they found his 75 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: skull and they're like, no, he has a weird shape dead. 76 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: So Eric van Daeken here would say something like, well, 77 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: it's because aliens came down and bred with them. The 78 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: guy who wrote um Highways of the Gods, I believed 79 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: that Runways of the Gods basically the seventies dude who 80 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 1: who printed all these books basically saying that the ancient 81 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: Egyptians were in contact with aliens of them all this stuff, 82 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,119 Speaker 1: and there's all this evidence throughout like hieroglyphics and things 83 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: like you know, two tone commons, skull or whatever that 84 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: show that Aliens came down and bred with the Egyptians, 85 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: and that's how human civilization just advanced by leaps and bounds. 86 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: I believe it already just from that. Anybody who it's 87 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: like their acupuncture podcast came back, weren't just turned that 88 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,919 Speaker 1: off at the mention of his name. Yeah, exactly. So 89 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about how he died though, 90 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: because that's the big you know, we know that he ruled, 91 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: he was the boy king from nine to nineteen and 92 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: then just died. And over the years there have been 93 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: some theories, and the leading three theories was one that 94 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: he died from war wounds too, that he died in 95 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: a chariot accident that seems possible, or because of a 96 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: chariot accident, and the third was murder, that he was 97 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: clubbed in the back of the head or poisoned. I 98 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: didn't see the poison one. So the club one, uh, well, 99 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: let let's get into this. Then there was a lot 100 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: of political intrigue going on and there were people that 101 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: may have wanted him dead. Well. Yeah, one of the 102 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: high priests, Um inherited the throne after Tout's death, and 103 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: they were all in a very close close position to 104 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: have murdered him. And he owned the club yeah exact, 105 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: used to carry they called him clubby clubby the High 106 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: priest Um. So his body has been uh, we'll get 107 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: to the beginning. But it was found at first in 108 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: the twenties and just mangled. They mangled this dude, yeh. 109 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: They think now. The hole in the head was when 110 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: they were taking off his ceremonial mask that really punctured 111 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: a hole in his head. That's where the hole came from. Well, 112 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: he was, he was. They used a lot of like 113 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: resins and things back then to help mumify the body, 114 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: and because of that, he was stuck to the coffin. 115 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: And uh, Howard Carter, he was the lead chief archaeologist 116 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: on this dig Um, had his guy heat up a 117 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: knife and was just like cutting through his body. And 118 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: in the end they you know, they were like dozens 119 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: of fractures and they couldn't tell, you know, are these 120 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: fractures here because his team mismanaged it or were they 121 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: real fractures. So the mystery like builds up over the years. Yeah, 122 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: he had a broken leg too, and that could have 123 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: been from the chariot accident, could have him from that, dude, 124 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: well not even they proved that it was pre mortem 125 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: and it started to heal, well, it started to react. 126 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: It wasn't healing yet. But all this came about because 127 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: unnamed TV network funded a like a million dollar dig 128 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,559 Speaker 1: to make the show The Secrets of tut in Common 129 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: or something like that, and they got a ct A 130 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: cat scan on site, a portable one and for the 131 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: first time, we're able to run his body or what 132 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: was left of it through a cat scan, which pretty cool, 133 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: and they found out a few things. He had a 134 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: severely impacted wisdom tooth. Then you should have seen it 135 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: was like literally growing sideways in his mouth. I know. 136 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: They said it most definitely hurt. But through the ct 137 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: scan they were able to find there was no sign 138 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: of infection, so that didn't kill him. He had the 139 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: weird shaped skull, but they were shown that that wasn't 140 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: because of wrapping. They do a lot of like head 141 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: wrapping when they were babies, but they said that that's 142 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: just the way their family skull was shaped, maybe because 143 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: in breeding. Uh. They found he had no stern um 144 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: or rib cage what and uh. But through the CT 145 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,559 Speaker 1: they found that the ribs were shown to be cut 146 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: away and not fractured. Remember we I don't remember talking 147 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: about removing the ribs, but remember we talked about them 148 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: getting the internal organs out and then re stuffing it 149 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: in the qualificat four inch fracture in the back of 150 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: the skull not related to the little coin size hole 151 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: and uh. Later on they found out that that wasn't 152 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: actually a fracture. It was just where the skull wasn't 153 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: fully fused because he was still a kid. Wow, so 154 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: it's just a line. So they learned all this stuff. 155 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: They end up finding that the fracture was shown to 156 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: be pre mortem because they found embalming resin inside the 157 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: fracture and if it would have happened afterwards, it wouldn't 158 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: have like gone in the route that it went in. UH. 159 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: Showed that it was beginning to react, which means it 160 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: was healing. And they eventually found out that they think 161 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: he died between one and five days after this leg fracture, 162 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 1: which could have been a compound fracture which they think 163 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: might have been infected. So that's the leading theory. I 164 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: didn't see anything on this bone disease and the special though, 165 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: did you find out about that? No, but I know 166 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: I've seen that before. That has to do with him 167 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: breeding as well a vascular bone necrosis, which is a 168 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: degenerative bone disease. So and there's also malaria. People say malaria. Yeah, 169 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: I didn't see that in the special either. The broken 170 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: bone thing though, was like, uh, I mean that makes sense. 171 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: Of course, he could die from an effective bone back then, Yeah, 172 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: and his kneecap was gone on that leg. It was 173 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: just man, that must have been a bad accident. Yeah, 174 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: So they think it could have been a chariot or 175 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: they think he could have been hurt and battle, which 176 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: is why the chest was all messed up to like 177 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: after he was down on the ground, they were just 178 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: like pummeling them or it was clubby, which is not true. So, Um, 179 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: just King Tut's death alone is uh. It's considered a 180 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: world mystery as far as I understand, I'd certainly consider 181 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: it that less of a mystery now though. Um. One 182 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: of the reasons why it was he's such a celebrated 183 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: king is because of his tomb. His tomb was the 184 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: first and only UM royal tomb found that contained like 185 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,719 Speaker 1: just vast riches like everything that that Egyptologists which were 186 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: basically like um antiquities, crazed Westerners who were running all 187 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: over Egypt and um bribing officials to get stuff out 188 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 1: of the country. And it was a strange time. But 189 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: also you could call it the birth of archaeology. Um. 190 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: The the Egyptologists had always hoped for a find like this. Yeah, 191 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: it was only one that had been rated like outright. Supposedly. 192 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation around that too, which we'll 193 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: get too. Oh yeah, yeah, um there there there was 194 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: supposedly um it had been looted at least twice, and 195 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: Howard Carter, the guy who led the dig that found 196 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: Um King Tut's tomb uh suggested that it was in 197 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: ancient times. The value of the kings, we should say, 198 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: is this um area in Luxe or that qualifies as 199 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: a necropolis, which is a city of the dead. And 200 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: it was a functioning city of the dead. There are 201 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: a bunch of different tombs, There were local officials and 202 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 1: administrators and a local police force, and it was a 203 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: very sacred place that was off site. Howard Carter alleged 204 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: that at least once or at least twice, possibly more times. 205 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: Thieves had um breached King Tut's tomb in ancient times 206 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 1: and it eluded it, but to an extent, they didn't 207 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: make it all the way in. So I saw that 208 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: they weren't looted, but they were they broke in but 209 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: didn't have a chance to loot it. Oh, he said 210 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: they looted all sorts of stuff. He was basically saying, like, 211 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: they looted this, and then he was very specific. Yeah. Um, 212 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: but the the when when Carter found the King Tut's tomb, 213 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: it's called k V sixty two, was the sixty sixty 214 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: second tomb found in the Valley of the Kings. There's 215 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: still a bunch of mountain there too. Well. Yeah, but 216 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: the the most recent when they found was kV sixty three, 217 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: and that was just in the last couple of decades, 218 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: I believe. I think they said they found one every 219 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: ten of twenty years at this point. Oh really, Yeah, 220 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: So kV sixty two was found in the twenties and 221 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: kV sixty three was found in the twenty one century. 222 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: It's yeah, um, so it was a big deal when 223 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: they found King Tut's tomb, which is one reason why 224 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: I celebrated. The richest inside were another reason. But um, 225 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: I think there's like four thousand objects that they found 226 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: inside this um his his royal tomb. It was the 227 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: big daddy. But one of the other things that has 228 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: made King Tuts so famous is the supposed the curse 229 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:55,199 Speaker 1: that was upon his tomb that supposedly befell a large 230 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: number of people who were either present when the tomb 231 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: was breached or were connect it familiarly or um financially 232 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: to the people who were there, including a dog, the Susie. 233 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: I don't know the dog's name, Susie. Was it really okay? 234 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: You think I just made that up? Yeah, that sounds 235 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 1: like something I would say. I wouldn't name it Susie. 236 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: You know, Susie had three legs. I would love three 237 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: legged dogs. I want one. Well, you would love Susie. Well, yeah, 238 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: until Susie died. So let's talk about this, Chuck, Let's 239 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: talk about the kurs on King Tut's tomb. Yes, it 240 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 1: all started with the financer financier excuse me, behind the 241 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: whole operation or Carter's operation was a Lord Carnarvan and 242 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: he was very rich guy. He was in very bad health. 243 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: He had had a really bad car accident and apparently 244 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: was just kind of a wreck of a human. Like 245 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: during the dig, he would sit in a suspended cage 246 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: lined with gauze. I'm serious. Yeah, he was in that 247 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: bad of health until they actually opened it and then 248 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: he was like I gotta get in there. Uh so 249 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: he actually went in. Yeah he Um. He made it 250 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: from uh England to Egypt in like record time. He 251 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: took um a ship, a train, and a steamer down 252 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: the Nile to get to Luxor. Once he found out 253 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: that they were making headway. Yeah, and he got there 254 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: in like two weeks, which was like, that's like really fast. 255 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: Fact and especially if like you normally sit around in 256 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: a suspended cage filled with gauze, lined with gauze. I 257 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: kept trying to picture that. I wish I had a picture. 258 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: I wish I couldn't picture it, Like I feel like 259 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna vomit a little bit, especially like old timey 260 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: wicker you know, like those old wheelchairs that are so disturbing. Yeah, 261 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: from like the turn of the century, creepy. So what 262 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: happened to him was he had a mosquito bite on 263 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: his cheek he shaved one day with a straight razor 264 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: and cut that mosquito bite open and uh died because 265 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: of blood of blood disease from infection. Well, you're leaving 266 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: a big point out. This was two months after he 267 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: was there at the opening of King Tut's tomb. Yeah, 268 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: this is breaking news. He had actually snuck in. This 269 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: is when. Yeah, this is the un official unveiling. But uh, 270 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: four months previous they poked their head in to take 271 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: a look around. I think so. It was actually six 272 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,479 Speaker 1: months later I heard it was, And by Lord Carnavan's 273 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: um own uh words, they did a lot more than 274 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: poke their head in the party. Basically, they partied like 275 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: they went supposedly. This is how Carter told it, and 276 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: this is how he kept his job and his reputation 277 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: still to this day. They opened the door just a 278 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: little bit enough so we could peek in and so 279 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: that there were so many riches, pulled the door shut 280 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: and went and alerted the Egyptian antiquities authorities, right, which 281 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: is exactly what supposed to do. Lord carbon On uh 282 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: said no, actually we pushed the door. Carnavan Carvan, yeah, 283 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: he said, Carnavon, Yeah. He said that they pushed the 284 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: door open, went in, pushed another door open, went in, 285 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: went as far as the shrine. UM pocketed a bunch 286 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: of stuff. There's like stuff in Kansas City, there's stuff 287 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: in Cleveland, there's things in at the met Um at 288 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: the louver that. Yes, they are definitively linked to King 289 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: tuts Toom that should not be there because UM, under 290 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: the auspices of the agreement that ultimately fell between UM 291 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: carbon On and UM Egypt, they were allowed to take 292 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: nothing out, but they stole a lot of stuff. So yes, 293 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: you're right. They entered in November and then Um he 294 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: died in April. But in the meantime, though, and this 295 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: definitely didn't help to spell any rumors of a curse, 296 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: he kept losing his teeth, like one by one, his 297 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: teeth were falling out before he died. I know the feeling. 298 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: So imagine this Victorian era dude in a wicker cage 299 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: with gauze, losing teeth. Yeah, that's that's what he looked 300 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: like in the months leading up to his death. Yeah, 301 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,239 Speaker 1: he was in bad shape. Supposedly, at the moment of 302 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: his death, the power the power grid of Egypt failed 303 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: and then Susie and then Susie and then uh, well 304 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: she died. Yeah. Back in England they said that she 305 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: bade once and fell over death and he said she 306 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: had let out a howel and died. And uh. Carter 307 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: also had a pet canary that he got for good 308 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: luck on the stig and it died on the day 309 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: the tomb was officially opened. Some say it was killed 310 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: by a cobra, which is a symbol of the pharaoh's 311 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: so it must be a curse. Crazy. Uh. The rumors 312 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: started spreading because this was a time when you couldn't 313 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: readily get information, so they think that journalists got a 314 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: little uh, took some liberties, started making up some more stories, 315 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: spreading the word that it's actually a curse. Oh, they 316 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: jumped all over it. The British press was crazy for this, 317 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: but I think they actually made stuff up right, Um, 318 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: they still do. Have you heard the news of the world? Um? 319 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: And actually I read two sources for this idea of 320 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: a mummy's curse, Chuck. One was um an American painter 321 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 1: named Joseph Smith who told the tale about King Tutt's 322 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: father in law, not King Tutt, but his father in law. 323 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: Um canaton, I cannot one of the two his father 324 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: in law slash cousin probably probably Um I cannot, who 325 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: was known as the heretic King because he um he 326 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 1: opped worshiping all the old gods, the pantheon of gods, 327 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: and just um basically created in a monotheistic religion based 328 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,880 Speaker 1: on just raw. Yeah, I thought that was his dad. 329 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: It was his father in law. Yeah, like you said. Um. 330 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:22,360 Speaker 1: The the Um priests clubby may have even been among them, 331 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: because King cut came to the throne right after a 332 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: knat and um he uh the priests cursed him to 333 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: separate his body and his spirit forever. So that's the 334 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: possible origin for the idea of a mummy's curse, because 335 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: think about it, there's probably times when nobody thought of 336 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: mummies and curses going hand in hand. Um. And then 337 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: the other one comes from a short story called Lost 338 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: in the Pyramid Colan The Mummy's Curse by none other 339 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: than Louisa May Alcott, who wrote Little Women, So she 340 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 1: may have started the idea of a mummy's curse too. 341 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: Yeah you read Little Women. No, it's kind of a 342 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: chick book, remember most his lack readit really Yeah, he 343 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: was reading it to uh, an orphan. I think it's 344 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: pretty funny. So, uh, this whole notion of a curse 345 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: is that something was inscribed on the tomb. I've seen 346 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: a couple of different versions. One is they who enter 347 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: the sacred tomb shall swift to be visited by the 348 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: wings of death. That's pretty cool. The other one was 349 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: death will come on swift opinions to those who disturbed 350 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: the rest of the pharaoh. Is it one or the 351 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 1: other or was it even there? There's a third one. Yeah, 352 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: no shirt, no shoes, no dice. Uh. So everyone in 353 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: Europe and the United States at the time was really 354 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: like they called it Egypt Domania, which kind of bothered me, 355 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: but that's really what was going on. Like all things 356 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: Egypt were really like enthralling at the time to the 357 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: public because it was just like they seemed like a 358 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: cult of death fetishists, right, And this is also the 359 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: time when they're like we're mediums holding seances all over 360 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: like America and England. So the Victorians are really into 361 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: like death and like shrines to death. And this person 362 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,199 Speaker 1: was loved it, ate it up. And it wasn't just 363 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: um Lord Carnarvan who was the one who died. It 364 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: wasn't just him. UM. By ninety six, which was three 365 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:36,439 Speaker 1: years after UH, they opened the tomb, well a little over, UM, 366 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: there were eleven people dead who were either at the 367 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: um opening of the tomb or we're connected. And then 368 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: by twenty one dead just Westerners. Yes, that's that's it. 369 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: That's UM. Very good to bring up. There was. There 370 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: have been two papers that have over the years that 371 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: have debunked this. The first one came in nineteen thirty 372 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 1: three UM a German Egyptologists named George Stendorf. He was 373 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 1: German UM he U. He wrote a paper that basically said, look, man, 374 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: there is no Mummy's curse. UM. These people who are dying, 375 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: who are like struck by the curse, they're barely even 376 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: connected to these people, UM. Some were more connected than others, 377 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 1: like UM. Howard Carter's personal secretary died UM, and then 378 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: his personal secretary's father killed himself. He left a note. 379 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: His last words were, UM, it was the curse. I 380 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: really cannot stand anymore horrors and hardly see what good 381 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: I am doing here. So I am making my exit. 382 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: And then he let out a window. He went out 383 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: the window. It sounds to me like he had mental 384 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: instability that's possible and was not cursed possibly um, but 385 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: there and there there was some like Lady Elizabeth Carnavan 386 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: who was actually there at the opening with her father, Um, 387 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: who I guess changed his gauze. That was her role. Yeah, 388 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: Um she died as well. So people connected, we're dying. 389 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: But really for the most part, it was just wild 390 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: rumor and speculation, according to Professor Steindorf. And then we 391 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: come to the twenty one century and a guy named 392 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: Mark R. Nelson of Monash University in Australia created a 393 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: paper that ran in the British Medical Journal, which is 394 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: pretty cool. Did you read it? Well, I didn't read 395 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: the whole paper. Uh. He actually got a little more 396 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: scientific with it and examined survival rates of uh forty 397 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,880 Speaker 1: four Westerners identified by Carter as being in Egypt during 398 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: the examination. So and it just chose Westerners for good reason. 399 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: That was uh if at the time, Egyptians lifespans would 400 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: have been so radically different, average life expectancy would have 401 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 1: been so different from Trusterners that it would have totally 402 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: skewed the results, which makes sense. And he also only 403 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: included people that were there at the time, because he 404 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: worked on the assumption that it was the curse was 405 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: a physical into d So only if you were there 406 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 1: when the coffin was opened or present, then you would 407 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 1: be afflicted by this curse. Right, And there were four 408 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: opportunities to be afflicted by the curse by being present, right, 409 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: four official ones. Yet and he actually his whole papers 410 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 1: is bunk because he has the wrong dates. He completely 411 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: leaves out the first entrance. Well that's what I'm saying, Yeah, 412 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: the one yeah, right, But so he's got February seventy three, 413 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 1: which is the opening of the the third door. This is 414 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: supposedly the first time Carter and his expedition have gone 415 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: into the shrine, into the tomb, but it's not. This 416 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: is months after they've actually gone in and already started 417 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: to looted. Yeah, and it was found by accident, which 418 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: is one of the cool things. Oh no, no, I 419 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: thought some kid happened upon the top step. Uh. Supposedly 420 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: Carter's team came within a couple of centimeters of discovering it, 421 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: and then Carter, they're working this one area for years 422 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: and years and years, come within a couple of ser 423 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: centimeters are discovering it, and then car it's like, let's 424 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: stop working here, let's move over there. And then right 425 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: when Carnavan says that's it, I'm not funding your expeditions anymore, 426 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,360 Speaker 1: Carter talks him into one more try, and then all 427 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: of a sudden, there's the there's the tomb. So a 428 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: kid found the step and told Carter. Right, one of 429 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: Carter's workers came over and said, hey, I found it. 430 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: But apparently Carter was like, oh, that's great, good thing. 431 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: He knew he was. He was supposedly not quite the 432 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: the gentleman adventure that he's made out to be like. 433 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,199 Speaker 1: He was definitely a thief who sold antiquities like on 434 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: the black market for his own personal game. Well, it 435 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: sounds like some Egyptian kid found the step and was like, hey, 436 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,959 Speaker 1: it's over here. Yeah. No, apparently he knew it was 437 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: all along. Yes, Well, that kid begs to differ, I'm sure. Well, 438 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: and the reason it's so hard to find was because 439 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: during construction of other tombs, the I mean, I guess 440 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: you could call it a construction crew, an ancient construction 441 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: crew said their home base on top of what was 442 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 1: uh touchstoom, And so the ruins they are kind of 443 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: obscured things. And I think tout was either in the 444 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: eighteenth or nineteenth dynasty, do you know so? And then 445 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: the the home basis construction crew were alive during the 446 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 1: twenty dynasty, so they came much later. All right, So 447 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: sorry about that sidebar. Back to the dates. February three, uh, 448 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 1: the opening of the sarcophagus, October tenth, ninety six, opening 449 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: of the coffins, and then November eleventh, nineteen six, which 450 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: was when they actually examined and mangled and broke apart 451 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: the body because they had to get the gold off. 452 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: They disattached the head from the body. I mean, they 453 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: just mangled it all the bits um and what uh, 454 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: what Mark Nelson found was that these exposures were absolutely 455 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: no predictor of early death at all. And actually I 456 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: was looking at a graphic compile wild Um, if you 457 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 1: were exposed three or more times, your chances of dying 458 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: early actually decreased. So that he really yeah, his data. 459 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: His data showed that um, of the twenty five Westerners 460 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: present during an opening or an examination or both, um, 461 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: they lived in average of twenty eight years after exposure. 462 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: The other Westerners that were in Egypt at the time 463 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: that we're not exposed. During those four times lived twenty 464 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,479 Speaker 1: eight point nine years, like an eight year difference. Right. 465 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: That was the curse I think was you shall die 466 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: eight point one year sooner. Exactly. The mean age of 467 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: death for people who were exposed to the curse seventy years, 468 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: for those who were unexposed seventy five years. You shall 469 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: not see seventy one, right exactly. Yeah, there's there's um. Yeah, 470 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: especially back then, who musts to be seventy five not me? Um? 471 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: So there you have it. There was no curse there, 472 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 1: but it is possible that there is a scientific basis 473 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,199 Speaker 1: for people who were exposed to the tomb to have 474 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: actually died younger than they would have otherwise had they 475 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 1: not breached King Tut's tomb. That's right. And this special 476 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: on this unnamed network also covered this. Uh So, what 477 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: we're talking about, for the most part are bacteria, mold, 478 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: fungus trapped in these tombs. Uh breathe and and and 479 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: multiplies upon hitting oxygen. So when they open these things up, 480 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: perhaps these people get sick, or people that were already 481 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: sick get sicker and die. And Carter was actually he 482 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: was aware that this is a possibility. He took air samples, 483 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: he took sport samples. Um, or he tried to take 484 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 1: sport samples. He said that there was like the place 485 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: was sterile. Now he said there was mold and fungi. Okay, well, 486 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: okay um. He said his air samples were sterile, which 487 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: is just absolutely impossible. But he made a point that 488 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: like if Lord Carnavan did die of a bacteria or 489 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: an infection, he was far likelier to pick it up 490 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: in Cairo at the time than he was in King 491 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: Tut's tomb. That makes sense, it does, and that's been confirmed. Um. 492 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: There are some other deadly things that you might encounter 493 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: if you were to breach a tomb that hadn't been 494 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: opened in several thousand years um from malde hyde, hydrogen, sulfide, ammonia. 495 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: They all build up from decomposition um. One of the 496 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: cool things that Carter noted um upon entering the shrine 497 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: that the coffin shrine made of gold. This thing was 498 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: a room within a room, and this room was made 499 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: of gold. And there were coffins within coffins too. Yeah, 500 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: I think five of them nesting coffin UM. But on 501 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: top of the outer coffin. I guess which is the sarcophagus. 502 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: There were still lotus flowers and berries that have been left. 503 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: You know. However, how when did King tell live? I 504 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 1: think that it was like three thousand years earlier, three 505 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: thousand years before they left these lotus flowers on it, 506 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: and it hadn't been touched since, which is pretty cool. 507 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: And it's pretty cool. Um, these things also meet. You know, 508 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: you gotta have your meat when you're traveling through the 509 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: afterward life. Well, that's the idea, is that you want it. 510 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: That's why you had six chariots, as you want to 511 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: have everything you need for the next life. You want 512 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: to have your favorite camera or five. Um. These things 513 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: dee decompose themselves. They can attract mold like asper Gillis 514 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: niger and Aspergillis flavis um. And there was a bacteriologist 515 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: working in the late twentieth century who looked at medical 516 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: records of workers um like modern Egyptian workers at the 517 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: Valley of Kings, and found that a lot of them 518 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: had been exposed to these things too. And apparently you 519 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: can find those in tombs, so it's possible to be 520 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: felled by that as well. Yeah, they they on this 521 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: TV show, I saw they found another sealed tomb, which 522 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: was the first one in like twenty years they did. Uh, 523 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't a pharaoh. It was just like 524 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: a priest or something. But they found a sealed tomb, 525 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: and they thought, this is our opportunity to test a 526 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: sealed tomb for pathogens. So they in the in the 527 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,719 Speaker 1: tomb itself, they found like vast quantities of mold, like 528 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: tons and tons of mold, toxic mold. And then for 529 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: the actual coffin, they used a vacuum sampler to suck 530 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,959 Speaker 1: out an air sample before they even opened it from 531 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: this two thousand year old grave. And don't I saw 532 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: the thing. It was something like that. And uh, what 533 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: they found was exactly what he said for malde hyde, hydrogen, sulfide, 534 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: ammony gas, all these toxic, uh, toxic fumes. But in 535 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: the end they don't think that it could have been 536 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: at a high enough level to actually like kill somebody. 537 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: So while it was present, while all that mold was there, 538 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: although you know, if he was already sick, it certainly 539 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: might have contributed. He does it, he does thickly um. 540 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: And then one last one, another bacteriologist from Germany at 541 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: the University of Leipzig, UM conducted a study of forty 542 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: mummies and found that every single one of them contained 543 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: potentially dangerous mold. So of course it does. It's possible, 544 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 1: but unlikely, and it's almost definitely was not a mummy's curse. 545 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: I would say it very much definitely was not a 546 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: curse of Louisa may Alcott. It was the curse of 547 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: science and mold growing. So that you have it, man, 548 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: that's your answer. Was there really a curse on King 549 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: Tut's tomb? And oh uh, if you want to learn 550 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: more about it, you can tell been King Tutt. That'll 551 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: bring up a bunch of stuff on the site. Um, yeah, 552 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: you just have to type it into a handy search 553 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: bart how stuff works dot com And I said handy 554 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: search bar, So let me use it's time for listener mail. Uh. 555 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: You know they recreated his face too that I think 556 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: that made a lot of press at the time. Yeah, 557 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: I don't. He didn't seem to look abnormal though. Well 558 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: if you look from the profile, he's got a money 559 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: shaped head for sure. And it wasn't from rapping. They 560 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: said it wasn't from rapping. Craig I say, that's just 561 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: the family head. Have you ever heard of foot binding? Yeah? 562 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 1: What is that? I don't know if it was in 563 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: China or Japan or both, but um, like in the 564 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 1: early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, probably further back, it 565 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: was considered attractive for a woman to have a foot 566 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: like a duck, like a triangle. So they would bind 567 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: your feet to to this like bonzai into the shape 568 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: for years, and then eventually you would have this deformed 569 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: foot that was like the the point of the triangle 570 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: was your heel, and then it went out into the 571 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 1: other two points and there was your your foot, and 572 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 1: it was considered very um and outlawed. It was definitely 573 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: outlawed in China, and like you could get in big 574 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: trouble if your you know, daughter was found to have 575 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: bound for Wow, I've heard of that. I didn't know 576 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: what it was. Odd mystery salt all right, Uh listener, Mayle, Hi, Chuck, Josh, 577 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: and Jerry. By the way, Josh, I'm gonna call this, 578 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 1: Uh that's why sk saving lives. Oh, this is a 579 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: good one. Yeah, greetings from a long time listener in 580 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: your new Atlanta neighbor. I don't think he literally lives 581 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: next door to one of us. I think he just 582 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: is a new in town. Got Jerry just laughed at that. 583 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: I want to take a few moments to tell you 584 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,800 Speaker 1: how s Y s K contributed to saving my friend's 585 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,760 Speaker 1: life back in January of this year, a co worker 586 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: and good friend of mine. I'm glad he said he 587 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: was a good friend because when I read it initially, 588 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 1: I didn't see that. It's like this guy came up 589 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: a kidney for a co worker. Uh. A co worker 590 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,880 Speaker 1: was diagnosed with in stage kidney failure shortly after. He 591 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:09,279 Speaker 1: told me, you guys publish how organ donation works. After 592 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,400 Speaker 1: hearing about how long it might take on the waiting 593 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: list and how many transplants were done each year, I 594 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: decided that the least I could do was get tested. 595 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,880 Speaker 1: As it turns out, the other members of his family 596 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 1: were disqualified due to a number of reasons, including age 597 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: of medical history. But lo and behold, I was a match. 598 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: And in parentheses, he says, that'll teach me the volunteer. 599 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: What a good guy? No kidding, Mann ribs himself. Over 600 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:34,799 Speaker 1: the course of the summer, he and I were run 601 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: through a battery of tests to match blood type and 602 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: to prep the anti rejection drugs he would need after surgery, 603 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: and then on October eighteenth, we did the transplant. I 604 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: am thrilled to report now only a little over a 605 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,759 Speaker 1: month later, both of us are completely almost recovered and 606 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,880 Speaker 1: doing great. I would love it if you would encourage 607 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: anyone on the fence about getting tested to go for it. 608 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: The process is a little intimidating, but definitely worth it. Also, 609 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 1: the unlimited and berry juice and chicken broth are great perks. 610 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 1: And that is Dustin who gave up a kidney for 611 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: a coworker. And you know what, it's one of our 612 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 1: long standing s Y s K model mottos. Give up 613 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,800 Speaker 1: a kidney for a coworker slash friend, get a stuff 614 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: you should know T shirt. So, Dustin, if you want 615 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 1: to come down to the office, we will gladly shake 616 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,239 Speaker 1: your hand and give you your T shirt. If you 617 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 1: are the type who doesn't like to leave the house, 618 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,719 Speaker 1: will also maail it to you. Just contact with me 619 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: an email. If you like I'll give up a kidney, 620 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,479 Speaker 1: I will contact you. We have his email, but yes, 621 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 1: expect a T shirt at the very least, and if 622 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: you want to come by, we'd love to meet you, 623 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 1: so thank you for doing that. That's awesome. I mean, 624 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:44,799 Speaker 1: that is awesome, so cool. Um, I don't I don't 625 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: even feel like a bad person or less of a 626 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: person because it's so colossally out of something I would 627 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,560 Speaker 1: do for a co worker that like co workers that 628 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 1: I love a kidney for. Jerry would say, I know 629 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,719 Speaker 1: you would, totally would. You wouldn't for me, though, would you. Well, 630 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,279 Speaker 1: you wouldn't for me either, but we both do it. 631 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,799 Speaker 1: For Jerry, it's a wash. Yeah, exactly. Um that. I 632 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,920 Speaker 1: just think that that's great, So thank you for that. 633 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 1: If you have a fantastic, amazing story you want to 634 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 1: toot your own horn, that's fine, that's cool man. You 635 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: do something like that, you get to once in a while, 636 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: you can tweet it to us. If you can tell 637 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,360 Speaker 1: us your story in a hundred and forty characters or less. Um, 638 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: you can tweet that to s y SK podcast. 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