KING TUT’S CURSE SOLVED!
Tomb raiders were killed by radiation, not black magic
THE terrifying curse of King Tut’s tomb that led to the deaths of more than 20 people who entered the hidden crypt 3,000 years after it was sealed has been solved — and the mysterious killer isn’t sorcery, evil spirits or witchcraft. Scientists claim deadly, invisible radiation poisoning is to blame!
But for the past 100 years, rumors ran rampant a dark curse or evil spirits were behind the mysterious deaths of British tomb raider Lord Carnarvon and his team of archeologists led by Howard Carter.
Talk of a curse was triggered by chilling warnings carved in Egyptian burial crypts saying, “They that break this tomb shall meet death by a disease that no doctor can diagnose.”
Now Ross Fellowes writes in the Journal of Scientific Exploration new studies “confirm very high levels of radiation” in ancient Egyptian tombs at levels “of ten times accepted safety standards” was likely the killer.
“Radiation has been detected at two sites at Giza adjacent to the pyramids” and radon, a radioactive gas, has also been detected in “several underground tombs at Saqqara,” he writes.
He adds ancient Egyptians suffered “unusually high incidences of bone/blood/lymph” cancers for which “a primary known cause is radiation exposure.”
Fellowes says Tut’s radiation comes from uranium and poisonous waste brewing in his tomb for thousands of years.
Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died at 18, was sealed in his tomb with massive treasures in the Valley of the Kings and lay undisturbed until 1923 when the crypt was discovered by an expedition funded and led by Carnarvon.
Incredibly, the tomb was opened Feb. 16, 1923, and just seven weeks later on April 5, the 56-year-old Carnarvon dropped dead from blood poisoning supposedly after a mosquito bite he nicked with his razor became infected.
In less than ten years, five more of Carnarvon’s crew died from asphyxia, stroke, diabetes, heart failure, pneumonia, poisoning, malaria and X-ray exposure.
And the deaths kept coming.
British Egyptologist and journalist Arthur Weigall, who covered the tomb opening, died at age 54 of cancer in 1934.
Archaeologist Carter, the first person to step into the tomb with Carnarvon, died at 64 in 1939 after a long battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma — the likely cause, says Fellowes, was radiation poisoning!