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The curse of the pharaohs represents the
belief according to which any individual that will disturb the
mummies of the pharaohs of the ancient Egypt is cursed and he or
she will die in a short time. The curses are written on numerous
pharaohs tombs or around them, to stop people to enter. The
death of some members of the team that opened the Tutankhamun`s
tomb in 1922 really attract the attention of the people. One of
those people was bitten by a mosquito and died later, when he
cut the bite I a shaving accident. The poisoning of his blood
was the result of the infection. Of course, many of those who
gave a hand of help to the discovery of tombs or just visited
the tombs lived a long and healthy life; only 8 people from 58
that were witness to the opening of the Tutankhamun`s
sarcophagus and tomb died in a dozen years. There are also
theories about the existence in the tombs of the fungus which is
deadly and which could have grown inside the tombs and released
when the tombs were opened. According to other theories, the
mold was placed in the tombs deliberately in the tombs as a
punishment for the robbers of the graves. The death of the
people involved in the discovery of the Tutankhamun`s tomb
could have died because of the curse that is associated with him
and which sounds like this: ‘Death shall come on swift wings to
him who disturbs the peace of the King’. In the old tombs can be
some pathogens but it` s not for sure if these dangerous
materials were the cause of the death. Today, the modern
archeologists use protective clothing when they open the burial
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