Object No. 22542: The Unlucky Mummy

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Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

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Almost thirty years before the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun and the fabled “curse of the pharaohs” was unleashed upon an excitable population, rumours and stories of another curse, attached to an ancient object, had been weaving its way into myth and legend as a complicated tangle of truth and fabrication. The “Anger of the Priestess of Amen-Ra” has links to several high profile deaths and even the sinking of the Titanic. It was potentially responsible for thousands of deaths in the few decades since its discovery, far overshadowing the famous curse of the boy king in scope, even if it would never quite match it in fame. SOURCES Luckhurst, Roger (2012) The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy. Oxford University Press, UK. Breckin, Edmun (2020) The Unlucky Mummy: A Concise History of the Legend. Independently Published. Alcott, Louisa May (2019) Curse of the Mummy: Victorian Tales of Ancient Egyptian Terror. Fox Editing Classics, UK. Bulfin, Ailise (2011) The Fiction of Gothic Egypt and British Imperial Paranoia: The Curse of the Suez Canal. Trinity College Dublin. Barbados Agricultural Reporter (1904) A priestess of Death. Barbados Agricultural Reporter, 11 July 1904, p4. Shaw, I & Nicholson, P (1995) British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. BMP, London. Summers, Montague (1946) Witchcraft & Black Magic. Dover Publications, NY, USA. Goodrich-Freer, Ada (1913) The Priestess of Amen-Ra. The Occult Review, Vol. 17, Jan 1913, p.11. London, UK. O’Donnell, Elliott (1911) Haunted Houses of London. London, UK. Stead, William (1909) Ghost of Egyptian Mummy Haunts British Museum. San Francisco Examiner, 15 Aug 1909, p.1. San Francisco, USA. Cheiro (1928) True Ghost Stories. The London Publishing Company, London, UK. ------- This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/darkhistories and get on your way to being your best self. ------- Click the link to hit up Vessi Footwear and use my code, DARKHISTORIES at checkout for 15% off your entire order! Free shipping to CA, US, AU,JP, TW, KR, SGP -------For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	Almost 30 years before the opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamun and the fabled
0:05.0	curse of the pharaohs was unleashed upon an excitable population, rumors and
0:09.8	stories of another curse attached to an ancient object have been weaving its
0:14.4	way into myth and legend as a complicated tangle of truth and fabrication. The
0:19.9	anger of the pre-steps of Ammon Ra has linked to several high-profile deaths
0:24.7	and even the sinking of the Titanic. It was potentially responsible for thousands
0:30.8	of deaths in the few decades since its discovery. Far overshadowing the famous
0:35.9	curse of the boy king in scope, even if it would never quite match it in fame.
0:41.5	This is Dark Histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:47.2	Hello and welcome to Dark History Season 7 Episode 7. I'm Ben your host as
0:56.2	always. This week's episode is a really good fun one. I really enjoyed putting
1:01.2	this episode together. It was really challenging to dig through and sort myth
1:07.8	and folklore from the actual facts, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. So I hope you
1:13.9	enjoy it too. We're going to just jump straight into it because why not? This
1:18.0	is Acquisition 225-42, the unlucky mummy.
1:26.8	In 1922, Howard Carter peered through a small crack in an ancient stone door
1:32.6	and told the world of the wonderful things that lay inside. There wasn't any
1:38.0	old stone door, but the inner doorway to the antechamber inside the tomb of
1:42.2	Tune Carmoon and one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time.
1:46.2	The elusive Pharaoh had been the subject of an intense search for almost seven years
1:51.4	and its discovery ignited popular imagination around the world, creating a
1:55.8	craze that would come to be known as Tup Mania as headlines printed tales of
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