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But celebrations gave way to mourning a few months later in 1923, when the much-heard-of, though lessseen-legend of the ‘curse of pharaohs’ followed, when majority of those who spectacled the royal king’s unwrapping fell to death one by one. And the first to fall was the man behind funding the excavation, Lord Carnarvon, who unknowingly shaved a mosquito bite off his face causing blood poisoning and pneumonia leading to immediate death. Many call it a bad omen setting in for violating the grave of the pharaoh, where hieroglyphics had warned – “Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the King”. But pragmatists impute it to immune systems that gave in to the pathogens (Staphylococcus and histoplasmosis) present in the tomb. Carnarvon was known for frail health but George Jay Gould wasn’t.

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