King Tut - The Curse of the Mummy (feat. Zahi Hawass)

( http://heritage-key.com/blogs/bija-knowles/curse-king-tut-video-guide-avoidin... ) One of the most popular stories around the discovery of King Tutankhamun is that of the Curse of King Tut. The story was popularised after the death of the discovery's funder Lord Carnarvon, who was believed to have succumbed to a mosquito or cobra bite, just 6 weeks after the tomb was opened. Fuelled by a mistranslation of the Anubis statue which threatened death on all those who entered the tomb, a media frenzy took over, even though the vast majority of the team, including explorer Howard Carter, went on to live long lives.

Dr Zahi Hawass recounts these tales and tells us that he had never believed in such a curse upon the Tomb of King Tutankhamun. That is, until he faces his own mysterious set of circumstances after examining the boy king's mummy.

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[tedsrunescape]

he does not have bad english hes just got the accent

[EricMetalGuitarist]

Zahi Hawass is simply awesome! He is a true giant in the field of archaeology, known far and wide even amongst the laymen. Plus, I could listen to his bad English all day; it's entertaining! Lol.

Seriously though, he is an amazing intellect and apparently from this video, a superb storyteller!

[JTeezysMistrezz]

I love Dr. Zahi Hawass.

[Jaahaah]

@giltedged2 Wow, you must be the oldest dude alive since god

[Happyburn]

Thats a pretty weak curse, all it did was make it rain, and shut down a ct machine for an hour. Big Curse wooooooooooooooo

[rweerakkody4565]

@tbursee you got yer history mixed up, rameses II was moses' pharaoh

[Pocadottie]

i love the way he says tutankhamun

[rweerakkody4565]

dr. hawass is an egyptology genius!!! he is simply amazing.....i adore him more everytime i see him on discovery channel

[deuce2469]

@tbursee WOOOW!! Are u fucking serious?? how retarted are you pal?????? Yeh he was the son of a pharoh but ur getting ur facts mixed up with that of the story of the exodus, the pharoh in the exodus was rameses the 2 he lived 200 years after king tut, and when tuts father died he did become the king, his father was akenaten!! And also rameses lived through the exodus incase u forgot he was 92 years old when he died!. and his first born son was amaherhakepershef "im not positive on the spelling"

[Lily2U1515]

@sillynut1010 what, like how its supposed to be said, he's more an authority on the pronunciation than you, silly

[oronopolo]

I waant Maanuel!

[nellygl75]

it is very interesting to me what Zahi Hawass said about the machine that stopped working 4 one hour.. truly there is something about the curse. I had the same experience when I wanted to take a photo of the mummy of KIng Tut on an expo in Munchen last year....believe it or not my camera stopped working. the screen got blurred like an old TV .. i didn't even think to try 2nd time!!!