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The Mummy's Curse (Classic)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Unlucky Mummy in the Titanic
In 1922, a decade after the Titanic had slipped beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic, another archaeologist. The Englishman Howard Carter was at the head of the Valley of the Kings in the heart of ancient Egypt. He described what he described as a magnificent tomb with seals intact. Deep inside that tomb behind a sealed door, a corridor filled with rubble, another sealed door,. A chamber full of treasures and yet another sealed door were something nobody had dared to disturb for millennia.
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