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The unbroken seal on Tutankhamen’s Tomb, 1922.

Left untouched for 3,245 years, the seal was later broken by Howard Carter.

The story goes that he also found an ancient clay tablet in the antechamber. When he later translated it, the inscription read: “Death will slay with his wings whoever disturbs the peace of the pharaoh”.

This would later become the famous “Curse of the Pharaohs”, which in fact is just a myth. The curse, which does not differentiate between thieves and archaeologists, allegedly can cause bad luck, illness, or death.

17 years later Carter would die at his London flat, next to the Royal Albert Hall, on 2 March 1939, aged 64 from Hodgkin’s disease. He was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery in London on 6 March, with nine people attending his funeral.

His love for Egypt remained strong; his epitaph on his gravestone read: “May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness”, a quotation is taken from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun, and “O night, spread thy wings over me as the imperishable stars”.

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