The Mummy's Curse

Long before Howard Carter gazed upon the mask of Tutankhamun or Lord Carnarvon succumbed to pneumonia, Edwardians had told each other ghost stories. No ghost story was more popular than a tale of the mummy's curse. But all these tales are second-hand or third-hand accounts. Newspapers reporting hearsay about hearsay. The story of the unlucky coffin case just isn't true. We know that because we have the doomed liner's cargo manifest. It lists no Egyptian artifacts. And there is one final reason I'm confident that the coffin case of the unknown priestess of Arman Rah did not sink with the Titanic. It's that it never left the British Museum.