7 Facts About Tutankhamun You Probably Didn't Know

This is a rather high profile case as far as curses go thanks to the 1950's film 'The Pharaoh's Curse'. However, there is an alarming truth behind this Hollywood adaptation, with a number of strange cases being reported over the past 100 years or so.

Sir Bruce Ingram, a friend of Howard Carter, received a paperweight from Carter that included a mummified wrist. On the wrist was an inscribed scarab that read "Cursed be he who moves my body. To him shall come fire, water and pestilence." Shortly after, Sir Bruce's house burnt down and was flooded while it was being rebuilt.

While working on the excavation of King Tut's tomb, Carter also reported seeing jackals that resembled the Egyptian God Anubis in the desert, despite there being no reported sightings of that species in over 35 years in that area. Finally, George Herbert, the man who officially opened the tomb of King Tut in 1923, was bitten by a mosquito at the event and died due to an infection from the bite four months later.

In total, eleven members of Howard Carter's team died within a decade of opening King Tut's tomb. Are these all crazy coincidences or is it evidence of a supernatural curse?