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Did 'Mummy's Curse' Kill Egyptian Looters?
« on: Mar 13 2011 - 06:12PM »
Did 'Mummy's Curse' Kill Egyptian Looters?

(CHICAGO) - Thugs smashed their way into Cairo's Royal   Egyptian Museum, the sanctuary of Egypt's priceless past. They sought to   smash and grab their way to millions by plundering the royal gold of   ancient Pharaohs including the artifacts of the god-king Tut.
Inside the museum they took a turn—a turn for the   worse—and came upon the silent sarcophagus's of two fragile mummies.   Without much thought the destructive punks ripped the heads from the   mummies and kicked them around like soccer balls.
They never got their hands on the gold. The mummy's curse fell upon them.
Security guard al-Hamad Genadry told the Cairo press   that when he discovered the two goons they were jabbering and   drooling—talking in gibberish to the two severed mummy heads.
"They rolled about on the floor thrashing like curs. It was truly quite a remarkable sight," the 52-year-old museum guard said.
During the uprisings across Egypt that toppled Egyptian   ruler Mubarak, bands of thieves roamed the cities taking advantage of   the chaos. Some raided the nation's museums stealing, defacing or   destroying fragile, priceless antiquities.
Archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's   Supreme Council of Antiquities, reported on his website that looters   broke into several of the museums.
Thieves smashed artifacts and stole ancient jewelry,   Hawass wrote on his official blog. "A large group, armed with guns and a   truck, entered the store, opened the boxes in the magazine and took the   precious objects. Other groups attempted to enter the Coptic Museum,   Royal Jewelery Museum, National Museum of Alexandria, and El Manial   Museum."
     Cairo doctors at the Ain Shams University Hospital,   consulted about the thieves' condition, speculated that they may have   breathed in some of the ancient dust impregnated in the mummies' burial   wrappings. "It may be an infection of the brain. We are checking that,"   an unnamed doctor told reporters at the Cairo National Hospital. "It is,   though, a most curious case."
 
        Other doctors have confirmed that the two men have since succumbed to a mysterious malady. Autopsies are planned.
Mummies curses have been promoted by the European press   for more than a century. The most famous cases involved the violation   of royal Egyptian tombs, especially that of the young Pharaoh, King   Tutankhamen.
The idea of a curse has fueled movies as far back as   the famous Universal Studios series about a living mummy. Many more   British and U.S. horror films have carried the mummy's curse idea   forward to millions of viewers.
Although many place the "blame" upon 19th Century   British journalists for created the idea of mummies curses, it is well   known among Egyptologists that many ancient tombs were sealed with a   royal curse: a warning to future grave robbers.
Lesser known is the fact that small cults still exist in Egypt that worship the ancient gods and ascribe to them great powers...
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Re: Did 'Mummy's Curse' Kill Egyptian Looters?
« Reply #1 on: Oct 07 2011 - 11:12AM »
Moral lesson having to do with  "curses". Don't screw around with dead people, whether they are from the First Dynasty in Egypt or the gaves of many a mobster killed during the 1920s-1940s and buried, I bet you all know where.
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Re: Did 'Mummy's Curse' Kill Egyptian Looters?
« Reply #2 on: Oct 09 2011 - 08:41AM »
Moral lesson having to do with  "curses". Don't screw around with dead people, whether they are from the First Dynasty in Egypt or the gaves of many a mobster killed during the 1920s-1940s and buried, I bet you all know where.

I agree with you 100%, the dead deserve respect.
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