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The Mummy's Curse (Classic)

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Unlucky Mummy or the Curse of Tutankhamun?

Corsionary Tales are true stories of disaster and lessons for us all to learn. But what lesson should we learn from stories about the unlucky mummy or the curse of Tutankhamun? First, let's establish what exactly is said to have happened to Carnarvon and Carter's expedition. The first indication of trouble was a little on the nose, the death of a canary. Howard Carter's beloved pet canary had been eaten by a cobra when he began excavate the tomb. A railroad baron, from pneumonia, after visiting the tomb of Tutankshamun in 1923, the same year as Lord Carnarvon's half-brother. Another radiologist after performing

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