WEBVTT - Was there a curse on King Tut's tomb? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.920 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.439 from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:20.079 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.960 and makes this stuff you should know the podcast. I'm 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.440 walking like an Egyptian Worth. You nailed that too, Jerry 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.680 and now were singing the old Steve Martin King tut 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.760 song and you were like, what is that? I know 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:35.879 what it is? And I'm young. I don't know that. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.839 I don't know the lyrics. Yeah, you were. You were 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.559 on the cusp there, that was. That was a big 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.159 deal when I was a kid, And I was like 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.519 to when I think when that came out? Yeah, he 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.559 missed it by a few years. Yeah, I mean, it 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.640 wasn't like twenty five and going to see Steve Martin 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:58.440 or anything, what I like sixty. So, Chuck, I know 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.720 you're familiar with Steve Martin, but are you familiar with 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.720 a little boy king by the name of King two 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.080 tongue common, Yes, I am, are you? Yeah, Well, let's 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.840 wrap about him. Man, did you go see the exhibit? No? No, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.920 the Discovery one in Times Square. Well it travels you know. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.839 Oh yeah, no, you we saw that one. I didn't 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.440 see it though it saw bodies, so that was pretty neat. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.080 I think I told you about that. I didn't see 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.839 bodies yet. I did the dialogue in the Dark. Yeah, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:31.120 we talked about this. Yeah, bodies was pretty cool. But 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.560 you're like, wow, this is really nuts. Yeah, um, but no, 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.240 I didn't see King Tych did you? Did you know 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.759 there's a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit now in Times Square? 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.560 Discovery has you know, Discovery has like this basically like 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:48.280 a museum, like an exhibition show in Times Square and 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.480 the newest one is the Dead Sea Scrolls. Like the 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.240 Dead Sea Scrolls are there in Times Square right now. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:59.200 You can sign your name on it, right Yeah, all right, 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:00.760 Well let's get back to King Tut because we got 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.600 a little off topic. If you ask me, um, I'm 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.480 gonna tell you what I know about King Tutt, and 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.440 then you tell me what you know and we'll combine 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.799 the two. So like, for example, um, I found out 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.040 that King Tut was an Avid chariot racer. Did you 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.280 know that he was buried apparently in tombed I should say, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:24.720 with six chariots. It's kind of like you're uber wealthy 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:30.120 boy president, right, who's like sixteen and then you know 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.839 dies at a eighteen is buried with like his eight 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.640 camaros or something. That's kind of what they did with 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:40.200 King Tutt. He was also an avid ostrich hunter. He 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.040 used to hunt in the desert with just him and 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.040 his dog. Is pretty cool. Um. He also married his 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.320 sister and had two babies with their both of the 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.679 both of which were um born prematurely and dyed. Yeah, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.440 there's a lot of inbreeding going on back then. Yeah, 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.360 there's a lot of rumors that he was in bred, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.320 or a lot of speculation or I should say a 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:02.040 lot of factual conjecture that he was him self also inbred. Um. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.800 And they think that there's this huge mystery going on 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.280 right now that he was club footed. Did you know that. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.680 I did not know that. So they think that he 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.280 may have been club footed, which would definitely support the 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.760 inbreeding UM argument, not that people who have club feed 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.160 are inbred, but I think if you are inbred, you're 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.880 likelier to have something like a club foot. But they 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.239 can't tell. It looks like he's club footed, but his 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.680 his cadavers. Corpse has been so mistreated over the decades 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.640 since it was discovered that, Um, they can't tell if 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.560 somebody just broke his foot or if he was born 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:46.240 that way club foot? Is that all yet? Yeah, that's 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:50.280 all right, we should boy it. Uh. He was short. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.160 He had a weird shaped head. Have you ever seen 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:59.080 a skull? Uh, it's it looks like an egg. It's 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.480 really weird looking. And they measured it and found that 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:07.040 it just qualifies as quote normal. But he Uh. All 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.560 all the paintings back then showed all the pharaohs and 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.680 the Egyptian pharaohs had these weird shaped heads, and they thought, well, 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.039 those are just the artist. But then they found his 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.880 skull and they're like, no, he has a weird shape dead. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.400 So Eric van Daeken here would say something like, well, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:27.080 it's because aliens came down and bred with them. The 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:31.880 guy who wrote um Highways of the Gods, I believed 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.240 that Runways of the Gods basically the seventies dude who 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.159 who printed all these books basically saying that the ancient 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.640 Egyptians were in contact with aliens of them all this stuff, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.119 and there's all this evidence throughout like hieroglyphics and things 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.479 like you know, two tone commons, skull or whatever that 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.320 show that Aliens came down and bred with the Egyptians, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.839 and that's how human civilization just advanced by leaps and bounds. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.160 I believe it already just from that. Anybody who it's 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.200 like their acupuncture podcast came back, weren't just turned that 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.919 off at the mention of his name. Yeah, exactly. So 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.880 let's talk a little bit about how he died though, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.120 because that's the big you know, we know that he ruled, 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.240 he was the boy king from nine to nineteen and 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.440 then just died. And over the years there have been 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:21.880 some theories, and the leading three theories was one that 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.039 he died from war wounds too, that he died in 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.520 a chariot accident that seems possible, or because of a 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.200 chariot accident, and the third was murder, that he was 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.880 clubbed in the back of the head or poisoned. I 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:42.360 didn't see the poison one. So the club one, uh, well, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.400 let let's get into this. Then there was a lot 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.640 of political intrigue going on and there were people that 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.240 may have wanted him dead. Well. Yeah, one of the 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.760 high priests, Um inherited the throne after Tout's death, and 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.400 they were all in a very close close position to 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.960 have murdered him. And he owned the club yeah exact, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.440 used to carry they called him clubby clubby the High 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:09.040 priest Um. So his body has been uh, we'll get 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.040 to the beginning. But it was found at first in 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.560 the twenties and just mangled. They mangled this dude, yeh. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.120 They think now. The hole in the head was when 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.760 they were taking off his ceremonial mask that really punctured 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.720 a hole in his head. That's where the hole came from. Well, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.560 he was, he was. They used a lot of like 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.440 resins and things back then to help mumify the body, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.120 and because of that, he was stuck to the coffin. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.680 And uh, Howard Carter, he was the lead chief archaeologist 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.720 on this dig Um, had his guy heat up a 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.000 knife and was just like cutting through his body. And 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.839 in the end they you know, they were like dozens 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.640 of fractures and they couldn't tell, you know, are these 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.000 fractures here because his team mismanaged it or were they 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.400 real fractures. So the mystery like builds up over the years. Yeah, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.600 he had a broken leg too, and that could have 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.960 been from the chariot accident, could have him from that, dude, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.880 well not even they proved that it was pre mortem 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.240 and it started to heal, well, it started to react. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.040 It wasn't healing yet. But all this came about because 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:20.000 unnamed TV network funded a like a million dollar dig 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.559 to make the show The Secrets of tut in Common 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.600 or something like that, and they got a ct A 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.880 cat scan on site, a portable one and for the 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.680 first time, we're able to run his body or what 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.360 was left of it through a cat scan, which pretty cool, 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.840 and they found out a few things. He had a 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.560 severely impacted wisdom tooth. Then you should have seen it 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.120 was like literally growing sideways in his mouth. I know. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.080 They said it most definitely hurt. But through the ct 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.120 scan they were able to find there was no sign 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.120 of infection, so that didn't kill him. He had the 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.960 weird shaped skull, but they were shown that that wasn't 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.720 because of wrapping. They do a lot of like head 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.640 wrapping when they were babies, but they said that that's 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.880 just the way their family skull was shaped, maybe because 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.520 in breeding. Uh. They found he had no stern um 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:14.040 or rib cage what and uh. But through the CT 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.559 they found that the ribs were shown to be cut 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:21.200 away and not fractured. Remember we I don't remember talking 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.760 about removing the ribs, but remember we talked about them 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.240 getting the internal organs out and then re stuffing it 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:30.640 in the qualificat four inch fracture in the back of 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.720 the skull not related to the little coin size hole 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.800 and uh. Later on they found out that that wasn't 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.840 actually a fracture. It was just where the skull wasn't 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.480 fully fused because he was still a kid. Wow, so 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.880 it's just a line. So they learned all this stuff. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.840 They end up finding that the fracture was shown to 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:52.600 be pre mortem because they found embalming resin inside the 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.880 fracture and if it would have happened afterwards, it wouldn't 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.160 have like gone in the route that it went in. UH. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.760 Showed that it was beginning to react, which means it 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.160 was healing. And they eventually found out that they think 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.160 he died between one and five days after this leg fracture, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.959 which could have been a compound fracture which they think 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.760 might have been infected. So that's the leading theory. I 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:20.880 didn't see anything on this bone disease and the special though, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.600 did you find out about that? No, but I know 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.480 I've seen that before. That has to do with him 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.480 breeding as well a vascular bone necrosis, which is a 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:36.800 degenerative bone disease. So and there's also malaria. People say malaria. Yeah, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:38.800 I didn't see that in the special either. The broken 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.200 bone thing though, was like, uh, I mean that makes sense. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.480 Of course, he could die from an effective bone back then, Yeah, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.920 and his kneecap was gone on that leg. It was 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.240 just man, that must have been a bad accident. Yeah, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:51.760 So they think it could have been a chariot or 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.960 they think he could have been hurt and battle, which 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:57.920 is why the chest was all messed up to like 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.439 after he was down on the ground, they were just 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:05.040 like pummeling them or it was clubby, which is not true. So, Um, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.960 just King Tut's death alone is uh. It's considered a 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.680 world mystery as far as I understand, I'd certainly consider 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.360 it that less of a mystery now though. Um. One 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.040 of the reasons why it was he's such a celebrated 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:23.840 king is because of his tomb. His tomb was the 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:29.640 first and only UM royal tomb found that contained like 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.719 just vast riches like everything that that Egyptologists which were 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:38.480 basically like um antiquities, crazed Westerners who were running all 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.240 over Egypt and um bribing officials to get stuff out 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.199 of the country. And it was a strange time. But 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.199 also you could call it the birth of archaeology. Um. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:54.000 The the Egyptologists had always hoped for a find like this. Yeah, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.280 it was only one that had been rated like outright. Supposedly. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.839 There's a lot of speculation around that too, which we'll 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.640 get too. Oh yeah, yeah, um there there there was 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.280 supposedly um it had been looted at least twice, and 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.480 Howard Carter, the guy who led the dig that found 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.760 Um King Tut's tomb uh suggested that it was in 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.360 ancient times. The value of the kings, we should say, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.840 is this um area in Luxe or that qualifies as 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.680 a necropolis, which is a city of the dead. And 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.360 it was a functioning city of the dead. There are 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.120 a bunch of different tombs, There were local officials and 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.319 administrators and a local police force, and it was a 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.040 very sacred place that was off site. Howard Carter alleged 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.679 that at least once or at least twice, possibly more times. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:44.200 Thieves had um breached King Tut's tomb in ancient times 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.559 and it eluded it, but to an extent, they didn't 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.480 make it all the way in. So I saw that 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.960 they weren't looted, but they were they broke in but 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.200 didn't have a chance to loot it. Oh, he said 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.160 they looted all sorts of stuff. He was basically saying, like, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.600 they looted this, and then he was very specific. Yeah. Um, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.640 but the the when when Carter found the King Tut's tomb, 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.560 it's called k V sixty two, was the sixty sixty 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.400 second tomb found in the Valley of the Kings. There's 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.400 still a bunch of mountain there too. Well. Yeah, but 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.280 the the most recent when they found was kV sixty three, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.280 and that was just in the last couple of decades, 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.520 I believe. I think they said they found one every 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.560 ten of twenty years at this point. Oh really, Yeah, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.800 So kV sixty two was found in the twenties and 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.120 kV sixty three was found in the twenty one century. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.839 It's yeah, um, so it was a big deal when 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.920 they found King Tut's tomb, which is one reason why 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:37.000 I celebrated. The richest inside were another reason. But um, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.000 I think there's like four thousand objects that they found 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.040 inside this um his his royal tomb. It was the 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.200 big daddy. But one of the other things that has 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.120 made King Tuts so famous is the supposed the curse 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:55.199 that was upon his tomb that supposedly befell a large 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.160 number of people who were either present when the tomb 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:03.000 was breached or were connect it familiarly or um financially 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.920 to the people who were there, including a dog, the Susie. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.640 I don't know the dog's name, Susie. Was it really okay? 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.960 You think I just made that up? Yeah, that sounds 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.199 like something I would say. I wouldn't name it Susie. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.679 You know, Susie had three legs. I would love three 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:23.120 legged dogs. I want one. Well, you would love Susie. Well, yeah, 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.640 until Susie died. So let's talk about this, Chuck, Let's 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.439 talk about the kurs on King Tut's tomb. Yes, it 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:35.719 all started with the financer financier excuse me, behind the 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:42.280 whole operation or Carter's operation was a Lord Carnarvan and 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.240 he was very rich guy. He was in very bad health. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.760 He had had a really bad car accident and apparently 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.400 was just kind of a wreck of a human. Like 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.040 during the dig, he would sit in a suspended cage 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:03.560 lined with gauze. I'm serious. Yeah, he was in that 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.040 bad of health until they actually opened it and then 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.840 he was like I gotta get in there. Uh so 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.600 he actually went in. Yeah he Um. He made it 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:18.120 from uh England to Egypt in like record time. He 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.360 took um a ship, a train, and a steamer down 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.160 the Nile to get to Luxor. Once he found out 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:25.840 that they were making headway. Yeah, and he got there 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.000 in like two weeks, which was like, that's like really fast. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.920 Fact and especially if like you normally sit around in 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:37.120 a suspended cage filled with gauze, lined with gauze. I 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.880 kept trying to picture that. I wish I had a picture. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.200 I wish I couldn't picture it, Like I feel like 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.720 I'm gonna vomit a little bit, especially like old timey 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.720 wicker you know, like those old wheelchairs that are so disturbing. Yeah, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:56.120 from like the turn of the century, creepy. So what 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.560 happened to him was he had a mosquito bite on 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.240 his cheek he shaved one day with a straight razor 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:08.160 and cut that mosquito bite open and uh died because 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.680 of blood of blood disease from infection. Well, you're leaving 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.720 a big point out. This was two months after he 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:20.120 was there at the opening of King Tut's tomb. Yeah, 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:24.320 this is breaking news. He had actually snuck in. This 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.240 is when. Yeah, this is the un official unveiling. But uh, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.960 four months previous they poked their head in to take 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.440 a look around. I think so. It was actually six 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.479 months later I heard it was, And by Lord Carnavan's 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.400 um own uh words, they did a lot more than 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.520 poke their head in the party. Basically, they partied like 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.560 they went supposedly. This is how Carter told it, and 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.240 this is how he kept his job and his reputation 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:56.160 still to this day. They opened the door just a 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.880 little bit enough so we could peek in and so 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.000 that there were so many riches, pulled the door shut 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:05.520 and went and alerted the Egyptian antiquities authorities, right, which 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.160 is exactly what supposed to do. Lord carbon On uh 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:16.360 said no, actually we pushed the door. Carnavan Carvan, yeah, 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.200 he said, Carnavon, Yeah. He said that they pushed the 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.720 door open, went in, pushed another door open, went in, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.720 went as far as the shrine. UM pocketed a bunch 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.560 of stuff. There's like stuff in Kansas City, there's stuff 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:36.560 in Cleveland, there's things in at the met Um at 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:41.320 the louver that. Yes, they are definitively linked to King 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.560 tuts Toom that should not be there because UM, under 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.880 the auspices of the agreement that ultimately fell between UM 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:54.920 carbon On and UM Egypt, they were allowed to take 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.200 nothing out, but they stole a lot of stuff. So yes, 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:03.200 you're right. They entered in November and then Um he 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.399 died in April. But in the meantime, though, and this 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.399 definitely didn't help to spell any rumors of a curse, 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.240 he kept losing his teeth, like one by one, his 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.800 teeth were falling out before he died. I know the feeling. 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:20.920 So imagine this Victorian era dude in a wicker cage 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:26.280 with gauze, losing teeth. Yeah, that's that's what he looked 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.240 like in the months leading up to his death. Yeah, 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.239 he was in bad shape. Supposedly, at the moment of 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.960 his death, the power the power grid of Egypt failed 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.560 and then Susie and then Susie and then uh, well 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.080 she died. Yeah. Back in England they said that she 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.040 bade once and fell over death and he said she 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.240 had let out a howel and died. And uh. Carter 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.480 also had a pet canary that he got for good 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.200 luck on the stig and it died on the day 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.120 the tomb was officially opened. Some say it was killed 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.600 by a cobra, which is a symbol of the pharaoh's 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:03.040 so it must be a curse. Crazy. Uh. The rumors 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.960 started spreading because this was a time when you couldn't 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:12.159 readily get information, so they think that journalists got a 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.800 little uh, took some liberties, started making up some more stories, 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.679 spreading the word that it's actually a curse. Oh, they 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.879 jumped all over it. The British press was crazy for this, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:27.760 but I think they actually made stuff up right, Um, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.040 they still do. Have you heard the news of the world? Um? 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.359 And actually I read two sources for this idea of 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.399 a mummy's curse, Chuck. One was um an American painter 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.920 named Joseph Smith who told the tale about King Tutt's 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.680 father in law, not King Tutt, but his father in law. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:51.080 Um canaton, I cannot one of the two his father 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:55.680 in law slash cousin probably probably Um I cannot, who 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.560 was known as the heretic King because he um he 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.400 opped worshiping all the old gods, the pantheon of gods, 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:08.119 and just um basically created in a monotheistic religion based 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.880 on just raw. Yeah, I thought that was his dad. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:17.000 It was his father in law. Yeah, like you said. Um. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:22.360 The the Um priests clubby may have even been among them, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.520 because King cut came to the throne right after a 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:30.359 knat and um he uh the priests cursed him to 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.359 separate his body and his spirit forever. So that's the 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.800 possible origin for the idea of a mummy's curse, because 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.800 think about it, there's probably times when nobody thought of 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.440 mummies and curses going hand in hand. Um. And then 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.320 the other one comes from a short story called Lost 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.320 in the Pyramid Colan The Mummy's Curse by none other 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.760 than Louisa May Alcott, who wrote Little Women, So she 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.160 may have started the idea of a mummy's curse too. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:02.000 Yeah you read Little Women. No, it's kind of a 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:06.720 chick book, remember most his lack readit really Yeah, he 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.160 was reading it to uh, an orphan. I think it's 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.440 pretty funny. So, uh, this whole notion of a curse 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.600 is that something was inscribed on the tomb. I've seen 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:23.480 a couple of different versions. One is they who enter 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.760 the sacred tomb shall swift to be visited by the 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.840 wings of death. That's pretty cool. The other one was 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.080 death will come on swift opinions to those who disturbed 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.280 the rest of the pharaoh. Is it one or the 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.439 other or was it even there? There's a third one. Yeah, 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:47.119 no shirt, no shoes, no dice. Uh. So everyone in 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.720 Europe and the United States at the time was really 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.439 like they called it Egypt Domania, which kind of bothered me, 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.720 but that's really what was going on. Like all things 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.840 Egypt were really like enthralling at the time to the 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:02.879 public because it was just like they seemed like a 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.040 cult of death fetishists, right, And this is also the 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.200 time when they're like we're mediums holding seances all over 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:14.440 like America and England. So the Victorians are really into 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.720 like death and like shrines to death. And this person 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:22.199 was loved it, ate it up. And it wasn't just 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:26.760 um Lord Carnarvan who was the one who died. It 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:31.160 wasn't just him. UM. By ninety six, which was three 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:36.439 years after UH, they opened the tomb, well a little over, UM, 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.920 there were eleven people dead who were either at the 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.040 um opening of the tomb or we're connected. And then 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:48.840 by twenty one dead just Westerners. Yes, that's that's it. 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.080 That's UM. Very good to bring up. There was. There 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:55.879 have been two papers that have over the years that 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:58.320 have debunked this. The first one came in nineteen thirty 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:03.679 three UM a German Egyptologists named George Stendorf. He was 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:09.440 German UM he U. He wrote a paper that basically said, look, man, 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.840 there is no Mummy's curse. UM. These people who are dying, 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:16.280 who are like struck by the curse, they're barely even 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:19.960 connected to these people, UM. Some were more connected than others, 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:25.400 like UM. Howard Carter's personal secretary died UM, and then 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.760 his personal secretary's father killed himself. He left a note. 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:32.359 His last words were, UM, it was the curse. I 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.560 really cannot stand anymore horrors and hardly see what good 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:37.639 I am doing here. So I am making my exit. 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.119 And then he let out a window. He went out 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.840 the window. It sounds to me like he had mental 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:48.919 instability that's possible and was not cursed possibly um, but 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.240 there and there there was some like Lady Elizabeth Carnavan 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:57.000 who was actually there at the opening with her father, Um, 0:22:57.040 --> 0:23:00.560 who I guess changed his gauze. That was her role. Yeah, 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.600 Um she died as well. So people connected, we're dying. 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:06.320 But really for the most part, it was just wild 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:11.199 rumor and speculation, according to Professor Steindorf. And then we 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:14.960 come to the twenty one century and a guy named 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.919 Mark R. Nelson of Monash University in Australia created a 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:21.920 paper that ran in the British Medical Journal, which is 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:23.879 pretty cool. Did you read it? Well, I didn't read 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:27.480 the whole paper. Uh. He actually got a little more 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:33.080 scientific with it and examined survival rates of uh forty 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:37.880 four Westerners identified by Carter as being in Egypt during 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:41.200 the examination. So and it just chose Westerners for good reason. 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:45.800 That was uh if at the time, Egyptians lifespans would 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.960 have been so radically different, average life expectancy would have 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:51.399