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The Mummy’s Curse
A few years ago. I was reading a book about the Pyramids in Egypt. A good friend of mine, who was
interested in the subject. asked if knew about the Mummy’s Curse. I replied that I’d never heard of
it… and this is the incredible story he told me.
Back in 1910, an Englishman named Douglas Murray was in Cairo researching ancient Egypt. That was his job: he was a professor of Egyptology. One day, a poorly-dressed, very sick-looking American man came into his office and offered to sell Murray a mummy case, with the body of Hatshepsut, an ancient Egyptian high priestess of the temple of Ammon-Ra, who had died in Thebes around 1600B.C. The man didn’t explain how he had gotten the mummy, but Murray, feeling this was a great opportunity for study and possibly the most important find of this whole career, agreed to buy it. He quickly wrote the American a check, but the check was never cashed as the man died just hours later.
Murray read up on the mummy and discovered that the ancient high priestess was part of a feared group called the Cult of the Dead. The group had one central belief: they Considered it their duty to bring death and destruction to everyone they met. Murray read that when the scientists who made the discovery found the high priestess’s tomb, above the entrance they uncovered writing- warning of death and terror for anyone who disturbed her resting place. Murray didn’t believe the story of the curse. He prepared to take the mummy back to England. But a few days later, he had a shooting accident. Without warning. Suddenly his gun exploded in his right hand. The wound became strangely infected, and doctors were forced to amputate Murray’s arm at the elbow. Murray eventually set off for England, with the mummy. However, during the voyage, two of his Egyptian servants mysteriously died. They were young, strong, healthy men, so their deaths came very unexpectedly. Later, having arrived back in England, Murray was examining the carved image of the priestess on the side of the case when he reported that “its eyes seemed to come back to life and looked at me with such hatred that my blood ran cold.” Two of his close friends, to whom he had proudly shown the mummy on his return, fell sick and died soon after.
By this time, Murray was starting to have second thoughts about keeping the mummy case. A lady friend of his persuaded him to sell it to her, Within weeks, the woman’s mother died, her fiancé left her, and she got very sick with a strange disease. Was it perhaps the same disease that had plagued the American? Fearing for her life, she begged Murray to take back the mummy case, Murray gave it to the British Museum. The British Museum, which already had many mummies, decided to give it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in return for dinosaur bones. Before they had finished negotiations, both the museum photographer who had catalogued the exhibit, and the museum’s Director of Egyptology, were dead. With some relief, curators took the mummy to Southampton and put it on a ship to New York. On April 10,1912, Hatshepsut’s mummy left England. The name of the ship – the Titanic. I don’t know if I believe everything, but after the Titanic sank, the story appeared in many newspapers and some of the facts are true. that’s for sure.
tomb noun *
A grave where a dead person is buried, especially one consisting of a large
stone structure
Infected adj
containing bacteria or other substances that cause disease
carve verb **
To produce a pattern or writing on the surface of something by cutting it
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The Mummy’s Curse
A few years ago. I was reading a book about the Pyramids in Egypt. A good friend of mine, who was
interested in the subject. asked if knew about the Mummy’s Curse. I replied that I’d never heard of
it… and this is the incredible story he told me.
Back in 1910, an Englishman named Douglas Murray was in Cairo researching ancient Egypt. That was his job: he was a professor of Egyptology. One day, a poorly-dressed, very sick-looking American man came into his office and offered to sell Murray a mummy case, with the body of Hatshepsut, an ancient Egyptian high priestess of the temple of Ammon-Ra, who had died in Thebes around 1600B.C. The man didn’t explain how he had gotten the mummy, but Murray, feeling this was a great opportunity for study and possibly the most important find of this whole career, agreed to buy it. He quickly wrote the American a check, but the check was never cashed as the man died just hours later.
Murray read up on the mummy and discovered that the ancient high priestess was part of a feared group called the Cult of the Dead. The group had one central belief: they Considered it their duty to bring death and destruction to everyone they met. Murray read that when the scientists who made the discovery found the high priestess’s tomb, above the entrance they uncovered writing- warning of death and terror for anyone who disturbed her resting place. Murray didn’t believe the story of the curse. He prepared to take the mummy back to England. But a few days later, he had a shooting accident. Without warning. Suddenly his gun exploded in his right hand. The wound became strangely infected, and doctors were forced to amputate Murray’s arm at the elbow. Murray eventually set off for England, with the mummy. However, during the voyage, two of his Egyptian servants mysteriously died. They were young, strong, healthy men, so their deaths came very unexpectedly. Later, having arrived back in England, Murray was examining the carved image of the priestess on the side of the case when he reported that “its eyes seemed to come back to life and looked at me with such hatred that my blood ran cold.” Two of his close friends, to whom he had proudly shown the mummy on his return, fell sick and died soon after.
By this time, Murray was starting to have second thoughts about keeping the mummy case. A lady friend of his persuaded him to sell it to her, Within weeks, the woman’s mother died, her fiancé left her, and she got very sick with a strange disease. Was it perhaps the same disease that had plagued the American? Fearing for her life, she begged Murray to take back the mummy case, Murray gave it to the British Museum. The British Museum, which already had many mummies, decided to give it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in return for dinosaur bones. Before they had finished negotiations, both the museum photographer who had catalogued the exhibit, and the museum’s Director of Egyptology, were dead. With some relief, curators took the mummy to Southampton and put it on a ship to New York. On April 10,1912, Hatshepsut’s mummy left England. The name of the ship – the Titanic. I don’t know if I believe everything, but after the Titanic sank, the story appeared in many newspapers and some of the facts are true. that’s for sure.
tomb noun *
A grave where a dead person is buried, especially one consisting of a large
stone structure
Infected adj
containing bacteria or other substances that cause disease
carve verb **
To produce a pattern or writing on the surface of something by cutting it