In Egyptian mythology, it is believed that after the death of a human, the soul travels to the Hall of Truth, where it is judged by Osiris and 42 judge At the hall of truth, the heart is weighed with the feather of truth. If the heart is lighter than a feather... The soul goes to the afterlife. If it is heavier... It is thrown into a pit where it is eaten by a monster. The feather will be lighter if they are good, or heavier if they are bad
The afterlife is called the Field of Reeds. This is a mirror image of previous life. The soul would be very happy there and would not want to return to earth. The Egyptian word for the soul is called a Khu.
The Khu consists of five components: Ren, Ka, Ib, Ba, and Sheut.
The Ren is the most simple. It is your name, or identity.
Ka is the difference between the living and the dead.
The Ib is your heart, the core of your soul.
The Ba is what makes us unique, it is our motivation; the image of this appears as a bird with a human head.
The Sheut is your shadow.
After death, the Ba and Ka become the Akh, which may return as a ghost. If the body is not buried properly or there is something keeping the soul attached to the world, the Akh is sent back to Earth by the gods.
In some tombs of a pharaoh, a curse may be found inscribed on the tomb. The curse says that anyone who disturbs the tomb will be tormented with bad luck, which may lead to illness, or death. This is rarely found on tombs because the Egyptians believe it is dangerous to even record the curse. The hieroglyphics inscribed on tombs are written by Ka priests, however they are more to preserve the body than to protect it.
The most well known cursed tomb is the tomb of Tutankhamun, which became known after archaeologist Howard Carter and his coworkers opened the tomb, some of which died shortly after. Supposedly, a gold canary led him to the tomb. A man with him tried to stop him from going into the tomb, saying it was cursed, but Carter did not listen. When he was inside, he found the canary being eaten by a cobra, a symbol of Egyptian mythology. Later, on the same day, a cobra broke into both Carter's house and the pharaoh's tomb.
Lord Carnarvon, Sir Archibald Douglas Reid, and A.C Mace, are a few of the many known deaths believed to be caused by the disturbance of the tomb. Carnarvon was the first of deaths, infected by a mosquito bite and died four months after opening the tomb. Although the bite is not evident to be the absolute cause of death, a wound was found on the left cheek of King Tut when it was unwrapped in 1925. Supposedly, it was in the exact place of Carnarvon's fatal bite. The legend is that after he died, the power went out in all of Cairo and his son's dog mysteriously dropped dead.
Another victim, Douglas Reid, was a radiologist who x-rayed the mummy, and died of mysterious causes. Mace was a member of Howard Carter's team.
In the next four years, after the body was unwrapped, eleven more people who were connected to the cursed tomb died of unnatural causes. This included two family members of Carnarvon's, Carter's secretary; Richard Bethell, and Bethell's father.
There is controversy related to this phenomenon, many scientists and historians will say that deaths are due to exposure to the radiation and bacteria in the tomb. As previously stated before the Ka priests who wrote on the tomb of the mummy will most likely write spells to preserve the body and let it safely pass into the underworld. Despite the numerous deaths, there is no evidence of a curse found on the tomb of King Tut; only a rumor that when Carter found King Tut's tomb, he also found a tablet with the curse written on it. This he hid from his workers so they would not be afraid.
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In the town of Kom Abou-Billou, a young Zahi Hawass worked in this site by excavation. Exactly one year later, his cousin died; the next year, his uncle died; and the year after, his aunt.
He translated this curse meaning, "All people who enter this tomb, make evil against this tomb, and destroy it may the crocodile be against them in water and snakes against them on land."
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On a work site in Egypt, a man found a statue of the god Osiris and carried it back with him to a house in a village. The man who found it, Walter Bryan Emery, left it with an assistant who found him paralyzed in the washroom. His right side had been paralyzed and the next morning he was dead.
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In many cases, archaeologists involved with a mummy in some way, may have strange dreams until the mummy's were out of possession. While in the tomb of Bahariya Oasis, an archaeologist was removing two mummy's; a father and a child. The man who removed the mummies began to have strange dreams about children in the time of working with the mummies. When he put the two mummies back together, the dreams stopped.
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