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Tutankhamun | 1. Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb

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A Curse of the Ancient Egyptians

Ancient egyptians left evidence that they were keen to curse anybody who will dare to cause evil to the tomb or blunder the tomb. The media leaped on this because it sold more copios. While unsealing the tomb may not have unleashed a deadly, ancient curse, it did unleash a whole heap of trouble of another kind as carter became embroiled in a heated disagreement over what exactly should happen to the treasures and who they belonged to.

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