Egypt will use science to dispel the curse of the pharaohs, which popular myth blames for the deaths of those who have opened the tombs of Egypt's ancient rulers, Egypt's antiquities chief said. Zahi Hawass told Reuters a study would examine unexcavated tombs for dangerous substances, gases or germs, to explain the curse, whose fame spread in the 1920s following the death of a British aristocrat who entered King Tutankhamun's tomb. "At one of my excavations ... I found inscriptions telling us 'If anyone would touch my tomb he would be eaten by a crocodile, a hippo and a lion.' It doesn't mean that this will actually happen," Hawass said in an interview this week. "Scientifically we want to ... show when the Egyptians put a curse inscription on a tomb they did not mean they could hurt anyone today who opened the tomb," he said. Part of the study would focus on dangerous germs that may have developed over the centuries in mummified human remains, said Hawass, Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

British archaeologist Howard Carter and his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, were among the first to enter the tomb of boy-king Tutankhamun, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, in Luxor's Valley of the Kings in 1922. Lord Carnarvon died shortly afterward from an infected mosquito bite. Newspapers at the time said a pharaonic curse had killed him and other people linked to the discovery.

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although i'll be waiting to see how science can prove it,i still think there's something really wierd behind this curses.what i'm saying is that,it doesn't look so simple as what this Zawi Hawass said in the article

I disagree, Engulf. I these pharonic curses are in much the same boat as the Bermuda Triangle - a series of perfectly explicable incidents that have been dressed up to look paranormal. I think if you examine the supposed cases of the curse - the death toll of people involved in the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb for example - it becomes apparent that nothing that untoward was actually happening.

Howard Carter, for instance, lived on for years and years after the excavation - and then when some supposedly 'serious' Egyptologists say that this is because he wasn't first into the tomb and Carnarvon was, it all starts to seem particularly desperate. Especially since the curse was reputed to have done for just about half of the other people on the dig.

I agree with Aslan , one of my favorite lines is ...


" I think my couch is cursed , the last person who owned it died ..... " when you say this to people with a staright face you get all sorts of responses sometimes they even start gabbling on about the reality of curses . Only she was old and people die I really don't think there was any conection , or is there ?