curse

Chapter 29

"Ye Xiao, why don't you go back?" the female typist in the office asked Ye Xiao before going out.

"Ah, today I want to check some information in the bureau."

"You, really." She walked out lightly with her bag on her back, and then slowly closed the door, so Ye Xiao was left alone in the office, sitting quietly in front of the computer. The silence was like a net, cast on Ye Xiao's head, making it impossible for him to escape.

He ate some snacks hastily, then poured a glass of boiled water and drank slowly.There are many books and materials borrowed from the library piled on the table, and the computer is also using broadband Internet access. He typed two words into a famous search engine-curse.

Ye Xiao found that among the searched web pages, the most were about ancient Egyptian pyramids and tombs. He looked at a few of the web pages, and then compared the records and materials left in the books. In this In the lonely night, he gradually learned about the famous legend - the curse of the Pharaoh.

Ye Xiao noticed that the most famous event was the excavation of King Tutankhamun's tomb. In 1922, archaeologist Carter opened the tomb of the famous Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the desert of the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Carter and his assistants sneaked into the tomb. Before entering the inner room, Carter discovered an ancient Egyptian pictograph on a clay plate The text, the content of the text is creepy: "Death will spread its huge wings and strangle anyone who dares to disturb the rest of the pharaoh."

On another statue of the god, I saw such a text: "I am the one who cooperates with the heat of the desert to force the tomb robbers to escape and to protect Tutankhamun's tomb!"

However, they entered the inner chamber and found the golden coffin containing the mummy of pharaoh Tutankhamun.Not long after, the sponsor of this archaeological activity, Earl Carnarvon, was bitten by a mosquito on his left cheek when he was about to open the golden coffin in Tutankhamun's tomb. Carnarvon died in Cairo on February 1923, 2.Unbelievably, at the same time that Carnarvon died, the entire Cairo suddenly lost power, and everyone fell into darkness. It took 18 minutes for the power to come back on.Carnarvon's sister, who was by the side of the deceased at the time, recalled: "Before (Carnarvon) died, he had a high fever and kept yelling: 'I heard his call, and I will follow him.'"

The results of the later research on the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun were even more surprising. According to research, Tutankhamun, a young pharaoh who died only at the age of 18, also died of being bitten by a mosquito. Archaeologists examined Tutankhamun's mummy and found that the pharaoh's mosquito bite was also on the left cheek, with clear marks, exactly the same as the mosquito bite on Carnarvon's face.

But the curse did not disappear: Carter's assistant Mais suffered from a high fever and died 4 years later; his mother and a nurse also died after being bitten by bugs; He died suddenly of a heart attack; Messi, an archaeologist invited by Carter, was unconscious for a long time and died in the same hotel where Carnarvon stayed; Professor Archibald Reed, who saw through his body with light, suffered a high fever after taking a few photos, and died soon after; the archaeologist Eplin Horvayt was leaving King Tutankhamun Mausoleum committed suicide a few days later. He left his last words: "I left this world because of the curse of Pharaoh." The strangest thing is that one morning in 1929, Carnarvon's widow Elizabeth died. , also died from insect stings, and even the sting site was on the left cheek...

So what exactly is the cause of death for so many victims?Mehrer, curator of the Cairo Museum, did not believe the pharaoh's curse. He said: "I have dealt with mummies all my life. Am I not still alive?" But soon after, he died of a heart attack.On the same day he died, a team of workers came to a museum to pack a batch of cultural relics unearthed from Tutankhamun's tomb, including a 2.5-pound gold mask.

Some scientists believe that it is caused by viruses. They found that a virus is extremely tenacious and can survive in mummies for as long as 4000 years.The virus can also break out through skin contact. The pigments of the colorful murals in the mausoleum contain highly toxic substances such as arsenic.Some people also believe that the archaeologists died because of an allergic reaction to the mold in the tomb after working in the tomb for a long time.

German historian Philip Vandenberg wrote a book called "The Curse of the Pharaoh", which specifically quoted the opinion of the famous atomic scientist Louis Bagreni: "I think the ancient Egyptians knew the law of atomic decomposition, and they The priests and sages of the world were well aware of the properties of uranium, and it was possible to protect their holy places with atomic radiation... There may be uranium under the tomb, or the tomb itself is made of radioactive stones. This radiation can still survive today kills, or at least damages, health."

Vandenberg's astonishing imagination also linked the Titanic disaster to the pharaoh's curse in ancient Egypt, which he analyzed. On April 1912, 4, the "Titanic" hit an iceberg and sank during its maiden voyage, killing 14 people.The ship was known as the unsinkable giant ship in the world at that time.Captain Edward Smith was a first-class captain, but on the day of the accident, his behavior was very strange in terms of the route he chose, the unusual high-speed driving, and the way he called for help.There was also an Egyptian mummy on board at the time, destined for the United States.This mummy is the remains of a priestess from the 1500th Dynasty, who was found wearing various talismans and ornaments.There is a spell under the mummy's head, on which is a picture of Osiris, the god of death, and a line of inscriptions: "Wake up from your deep sleep, you can overcome everything that hurts you with a single glance." Instead of being placed in the cargo hold, it was placed behind the captain's quarters.Many people who had dealt with mummies had mental disorders, so Vandenberg suspected that Captain Smith had also been poisoned by radioactivity and became a victim of the spell, while the "Titanic" and the victims , also became the funeral objects of the mummy.

Seeing this, Ye Xiao didn't want to read any more. He logged off, turned off the computer, and closed all the books and materials. night.

Ancient Egypt is too far away, he only needs to know the secret of Loulan.His heart trembled, was it really a curse?Suddenly, he thought of the golden mask Bai Bi mentioned, and immediately thought of the golden mask on the face of the young Tutankhamun.Perhaps Loulan cannot be compared with the great ancient Egypt, but no matter where it is, the curse is the same.

Ye Xiao lowered his head, trembling slightly.

(End of this chapter)