“I heard his call and I will follow him” – after speaking this words, Lord Carnarvon. perished in the city of Aswan at 1:50 a.m., on the 5th of April 1923. At the same time, his dog, Susie was also dying at Highclere Castle, the family estate in England.The city of Cairo fell into complete darkness after an energy shortage that lasted for five minutes, nobody at the power station knew how to explain the return of electricity after the short breakdown as no one had time to fix the fault; its cause was also unknown, and so it remains until today…Coincidence?! For some perhaps, but for many others this was the beginning of several unfortunate events known as “The curse of the Pharaoh”. When Marie Corelli wrote in one of her romances “the most horrible punishment will fall upon the trespassers of a sealed tomb” she probably never thought that this passage of her book would fill many newspapers so soon after its publication. The world was only a few days away from getting to know about one of the biggest archaeological discoveries of all times. Two days before entering the tomb of Tutankhamun, Egyptologist Howard Carter had received a painful scorpion bite to one of his hands. Unbeknown to him, the infection from the bite would trouble him considerably while opening the tomb.… During the same night, an even stranger event took place; a snake entered the tent and ate Carter’s canary. As dawn broke on the morning that the tomb was to be opened, a majestic hawk was seen flying around the area, disappearing into the west. This sighting was considered a bad omen, a warning that left the fellahs (the Egyptian workers) fearful and whispering amongst themselves that very soon the foreign explorers would find “gold and death”.
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