Chapter 931 Curse of the Pharaoh (2)

Yang Cheng's voice sounded unhurriedly in this banquet hall. Everyone, including Earl Carnarvon, who had read this notebook countless times, was immersed in the world depicted in the text, as if he had become an explorer. Follow Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon to explore the miracle land.

Picking up the water glass, took a sip of water to moisten his throat, turned a page and continued to read, "For some reason, the front room of Tutankhamun's mausoleum turned pink, perhaps because of our flashlights and the corruption in the air of the mausoleum." The light effect produced by the combination of matter?

Of course, this is not the point, we found that there are 3 gold chuang carved in the shape of monsters around, standing in the center of the front room.

Next to the window are two life-sized statues of black guards standing opposite each other, wearing golden skirts and holding hammers and spears, they are mighty and weird.

In the tomb, we also found a bowl filled with plaster, which we guess was used by the craftsmen at that time when closing the tomb.

Some careless worker left a fingerprint on the surface of the bowl, which is still clearly visible after a thousand years.

Continue to walk forward and come to the coffin chamber, which is guarded by two warrior statues, and there are 4 golden shrines, a crystal sarcophagus and three sets of coffins.

The inner coffin is made of pure gold, engraved with the famous words of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun - I saw yesterday; I know tomorrow.

This sentence gave us a great shock, Howard obsessively caressed the engraved text, he seemed to believe that the ancient Egyptian pharaoh possessed the art of prophecy.

Then, we saw the young pharaoh Tutankhamun lying in his coffin, wearing a large golden mask. Howard and I couldn't be more shocked, because the mask is almost exactly like him.

And the most amazing thing is that after X-ray inspection, it was found that a scar on the mask was almost exactly the same as the scar on the pharaoh's face, but the thickness was slightly different.

The young pharaoh looked sad and serene. We held our breath unconsciously, and dared not touch it with our hands. We could only observe as much as we could, not missing any details.

On the pharaoh's chest is a collar made of rosary beads and flower-shaped carvings, and he is holding a flail chain and a hook. Although the colors of cornflowers, lilies, and lotuses have peeled off, they are still faintly recognizable.

Howard believes that the collar was presented by the pharaoh's young queen before the coffin was closed.

There is also a mural in the tomb, which shows the scene of this young and majestic pharaoh being taken to heaven by two gods.

The mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was wrapped in a thin cloth, covered with collars, amulets, rings, gold and silver bracelets and various precious stones.

Among them were two daggers, one of gold, the other of iron with a gold handle, the latter of which was extremely rare, for the Egyptians had only just known the use of iron at that time.

It is unprecedented for so many precious cultural relics to be unearthed in one ancient tomb.

Then it took us 10 years to sort out this batch of treasures and transfer them to the National Museum of Egypt in Cairo. Perhaps out of my own desires, I brought back a few unimportant gadgets for my family to keep , Let future generations remember that their ancestors have done a great thing. "

The records of the fifth Earl of Carnarvon came to an end at this point, and after that, his descendants compiled news about the "curse of the pharaoh". Old newspapers were cut into pieces and pasted on notebooks.

Yang Cheng glanced around a few times,

I found that people at that time liked to be a headline party. Titles like "The Pharaohs Have Revenge" have almost become a stereotype, while the subtitles are "Tutankhamun's curse killed another person" and other sensational words, anyway. No matter how exaggerated it is, it is best for readers to believe it at a glance.

As for the reports, they tried to adopt a positive tone as much as possible, as if what the reporter wrote was the truth: "The 78-year-old Lord Westbury committed suicide by jumping from the seventh floor of his London residence today.

Lord Westbury's son, who was secretary to archaeologist Howard Carter, who excavated Tutankhamun's tomb, died suddenly in his room last November in good health.

The cause of death could not be ascertained. "

"Mr. Howard Carter's partner Mace also died not long after. Although he persisted in working with illness for a long time, his life was not endangered, but he suddenly died suddenly due to unknown reasons."

Anyway, almost as long as he was able to get in touch with the person who went to Tutankhamun's tomb at that time, even if there were several layers of relationship, as long as he died, he would be dubbed "cursed by the pharaoh", and the real cause of death would not be investigated at all.

Yang Cheng also discovered something even more absurd from the paper-cutting. A report said that a man named Carter lived in the United States, and the cause of death was unknown. Howard's people must be careful, everyone may be implicated and die inexplicably.

Later, seeing that things were getting bigger and bigger, Howard Carter himself had to come forward to refute the rumors.

He said that "ridiculous reports" such as the so-called revenge of Tutankhamun are just a "play on words".

He said that some newspapers have been mentioning the so-called danger of crossing the threshold of the ancient tomb. In fact, science has proved that such danger does not exist at all.

He emphasized that scientists have proved that there are no germs in the tomb, and the results of infection tests in the tomb also prove that the above reports are very irresponsible and absurd.

In order to correct the audiovisual, German Egyptologist George Steindorf published an article on the curse of the pharaoh in 1933,

Newspaper sources and other sources of similar reports were dutifully explored.

He said that Carter, who died in the United States, and the archaeologist, Carter, had only the same surname, and had nothing to do with anything else.

He also found out that the Westburys had no direct or indirect relationship with Tutankhamun's tomb, the removal of artifacts from the tomb, or Tutankhamun's mummy.

After citing a large number of facts, he made a clear conclusion: "The Curse of the Pharaoh" does not exist at all. There is nothing similar in ancient inscriptions.

Howard Carter later published an article on the subject, writing: "As far as the modern Egyptians are concerned, their religious traditions simply do not allow such curses to exist.

On the contrary, the Egyptians hoped very piously, expressing good wishes to the dead. "

As for what happened to those people who died strangely one after another, no one can explain it clearly. Some people think that the ancient Egyptians may have used viruses to deal with tomb robbers.

A professor of medicine at Cairo University published an article saying that according to the physical examination he did for many archaeologists, these people all had a virus that could cause respiratory inflammation.

He believed that the people who entered the pharaoh's tomb were infected with this virus and died of pneumonia.

In 1983, a female doctor in France put forward another opinion. She believed that the deadly thing was not virus but mold. Because there were many foods in the pharaoh's funeral, they rotted and deteriorated over time, and various mutated molds were produced due to chemical changes.

In short, various theories and evidences have been proposed and published by experts one after another, but so far none of them has been recognized by the vast majority of people.

As far as the people of the Carnarvon family are concerned, they would rather believe in the existence of the "Pharaoh's Curse" than believe that their great ancestors died of a mosquito. Of course, it may also have something to do with the fact that they have witnessed too many bizarre events .

Yang Cheng closed his notebook and took a deep breath. Reason told him that he should believe in science, but thinking of all the miracles of nature, he couldn't help but slowly accept the possibility of the existence of "Pharaoh's Curse". How many unimaginable things the country has left behind is enough for him to accept this brain-opening concept.

Moreover, it is said that the ancient Egyptians were not magical, so they are not worthy of being called one of the four ancient civilizations.

However, Yang Cheng doesn't know whether the "Pharaoh's Curse" is still effective at the moment, and he doesn't care. What he cares about is whether Highclere Castle can make money for him. Resisting, he really wanted to propose reopening the room, which was a bigger gimmick than any English butler service.

After all, there will never be a shortage of rich psychopaths in this world, especially Americans, who can store eggs as dinosaur eggs for half a century. If there is anything they don’t believe, they will pack it when they return to the United States. The castle has been in the castle for a year and a half, and the pharaoh's magic is studied in it.

Yang Cheng was just thinking about how to persuade Earl Carnarvon to reopen the "magic" underground room, so he kept silent, which caused Earl Carnarvon's misunderstanding, "Do you not believe in the existence of the so-called curse? "

William and Yang Cheng looked at each other, is it important to believe it or not? But seeing Earl Carnarvon's solemn face, the two of them were not ashamed to say anything.

Earl Carnarvon was not hesitant, and suddenly stood up excitedly, "The records in that notebook are only one or two out of ten. Stupid reporters only know how to gain attention, and don't care whether the articles they write will mislead others."

Yang Cheng laughed, "Your Excellency, don't get excited, we didn't mean to question our ancestors."

Carnarvon waved his hand and interrupted Yang Cheng, "Listen to me, I know the whole thing sounds unbelievable. For those who haven't seen it with their own eyes, the pharaoh's curse is a fairy tale. I'm afraid it's not even a joke, but For our Carnarvon family, that is a nightmare that cannot be shaken away.

Although Mr. Howard Carter has repeatedly denied the curse of the pharaoh in public, others don't know, don't we know?

In order to avoid the pharaoh's curse, he hid in the United States all the way, but what happened in the end?

He still couldn't escape the bad luck. He was only 64 years old that year. His body was very strong because of his exercise all the year round, and there was no recessive disease, but he passed away peacefully while sleeping? Don't you think it's strange? How can a normal person fall asleep and die?

Most coincidentally, the day he died happened to be the day he and my great-grandfather opened the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun! "

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