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13 various sites, still convinced he would find an unopened tomb, Howard Carter approached wealthy British businessman Lord Carnarvon, who agreed to finance the search. After five unsuccessful years, however, Lord Carnarvon threatened to withdraw his patronage. Carnarvon gave Carter just one more year within which to make a discovery. Returning to Egypt, Carter brought with him a canary, which was later believed to have been the harbinger of both success as well as disaster. It was in that year, 1922, that Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun, but days before the discovery, Carter’s canary had been killed by a cobra, a symbol of the pharaohs. In November of 1922, Howard Carter cut a hole in the stone door that stood in front of Tutankhamun’s tomb. With him were Lord Carnarvon and twenty others, including archaeologists, workers, and servants. Upon opening the tomb, they found wonderful treasures including a solid gold mask that covered the face and upper torso of King Tutankhamun’s body. Soon, however, their celebrations were dampened by a number of tragedies. Lord Carnarvon died in Egypt a few months after the opening of the tomb. At first, doctors were unable to account for his death, but they finally determined it to be pneumonia and blood poisoning caused by an infected mosquito bite. The British press reported that at the exact moment of his death, back in England, Lord Carnarvon’s dog howled at the moon and then died. Rumors of a mummy’s curse shook the British public when the mummy of Tutankhamun was unwrapped, and a wound was discovered on the left cheek, in the exact spot as the insect bite that caused Lord Carnarvon’s death. By 1929, London newspapers reported that eleven people connected with the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, including relatives of Lord Carnarvon, Carter’s personal secretary Richard Bethell, and Bethell’s father, had died of unnatural causes. Bethell’s father leapt to his death, leaving a suicide note alluding to “horrors” he had seen. Did the mummy’s curse cause these deaths? If so, why didn’t the man who opened the tomb succumb to the curse of the mummy? Howard Carter, who never believed in the curse, survived into his mid-sixties, dying of what appears to have been natural causes. Reading Time _______ minutes _______ seconds 720 words 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 32 patronage --- financial support or sponsorship 35 harbinger --- a sign; an indication 42 torso --- a body, not including arms, legs, or head 58 succumb to --- to die of |
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