Podcasts · Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Mummy's Curse (Classic)
· 37 min · S4 E4
Episode The Mummy's Curse (Classic)
A hundred years ago, the Tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun was officially opened - despite the widely held belief that disturbing the remains of the Egyptian pharaohs could incur a deadly curse. Why did a team of archeologists risk inciting the wrath of King Tutankhamun by entering his burial chamber? And how many of them met a premature end for their impudence?
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