"My research has not only confirmed that there is, of course, no ancient Egyptian origin of the mummy's curse concept, but, more importantly, it also reveals that it didn't originate in the 1923 ...

British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team of excavators opened the doors to the sarcophagus of the ruler itself.

In a recent article, Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian former Minister of Antiquities, addressed the enduring myth of the Curse ...

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According to Egyptian news outlet El-Watan ... Scientists have debunked the infamous "Mummy's Curse", but are there other threats in ancient tombs? Lord Carnarvon, financial backer of the ...

Social media users have questioned whether the myth of "the curse of the pharaohs" might be to blame. The mummies were transported from the Egyptian Museum on Cairo's Tahrir Square to their new ...

Any tomb raider out there who isn’t afraid of the mummy’s curse ought to be afraid ... the cultural and symbolic worth of these Egyptian treasures far surpasses any monetary value to the ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

When European Egyptologists Dubois, Giles and Bray discover the tomb of the Egyptian prince Ra, American entrepreneur and investor Alexander King insists on shipping the treasures and sarcophagus ...

The team reached their conclusion after examining a mummy housed in Italy’s Museo ... providing molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt,” the team wrote in their ...