On This Day…..

King Tut and the Mummy’s Curse…..

November 26, 1922……

Archaeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon look into King Tutankhamen‘s tomb for the first time. Lord Carnarvon, who financed the excavation, died five months later due to an infected mosquito bite, leading many to speculate, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes), that his death was caused by protections put in place by Tutankhamen’s priests to guard the royal tomb. Carter had discovered the tomb earlier that month.