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Curse of the ancients
COMPILED BY NIMI KURIAN
Photo: AP
Common belief: Disturb the tomb, and incur the wrath of the Pharaohs.
A German has handed in a package containing part of a Pharaonic carving to Egypt’s embassy in Berlin, with a note saying his stepfather had suffered a “curse of the Pharaohs” for stealing it. The note said the man felt obliged to return the carving to make amends for his late stepfather and enable his soul to rest in peace, Egypt’s Supreme Council for Antiquities said. The stepfather had stolen the piece while on a visit to Egypt in 2004 and on his
return to Germany suffered paralysis, nausea, unexplained fevers and cancer before dying recently, the anonymous man said in the note. The belief in a curse that strikes down anyone who disturbs the tombs or mummies of ancient Egypt’s Pharaohs has been around since the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and the subsequent death of the excavation’s financier Lord Carnarvon.
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