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CURSE OF KING TUT

‘… Cursed Be He Who Moves My Bones’ When George Herbert, a British earl, dropped dead just months after financing the excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 — and was one of the first to enter it — stories quickly circulated that his demise was due to a curse unleashed by Tut for Herbert’s desecrating ways. A thrilling explanation, but not a likely one. For one thing, Herbert was already in poor health prior to the discovery of Tut’s...
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