Category: Archaeology

• The Curse of Tutankhamun

  The Curse of Tutankhamun was the belief that the 1922 discovery and opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun triggered a retaliatory force tied to the dead pharaoh, his tomb, or an ancient protective intelligence guarding royal burial sites. The theory accelerated after the death of Lord Carnarvon on April 5, 1923, only months after the discovery had become a worldwide media event. In its most dramatic form, the curse was interpreted not as an abstract omen but as a targeted assassination carried out by an Egyptian spiritual guard or unseen agency enforcing the sanctity of the tomb. The idea became one of the most famous twentieth-century examples of a death being absorbed into a larger hidden-force narrative.