An interesting fact - one of which I think was documented recently ...
and I can well believe. An interesting point for anyone visiting Egypt
or the like....leave all there that belongs there!! The Valley of the
Kings is an incredible place...awesome is the only way to describe
it...particularly King Tut's tomb...and it is very small.
Sorry...getting carried away.......enjoy this - I can lend you other
books for more facts!!
Brace yourself for this one! Its bizarre!
Believe it or not ... of all tales of the supernatural, this one is
perhaps the best documented, the most disturbing and the
most difficult to explain.
The Princess of Amen-Ra lived some 1,500 years before Christ.
When she died, she was laid in an ornate wooden coffin and
buried deep in a vault at Luxor, on the bank of the river Nile.
In the late 1890s, 4 rich young Englishmen visiting the excavations
at Luxor were invited to buy an exquisitely fashioned mummy case
containing
the remains of Princess of Amen-Ra. They drew lots.
The man who won paid several thousand pounds and had the
coffin taken to his hotel. A few hours later, he was seen walking
out towards the desert. He never returned.
The next day, one of the remaining 3 men was shot by an Egyptian
servant accidentally. His arm was so severely wounded it had to be
amputated.
The 3rd man in the foursome found on his return home
that the bank holding his entire savings had failed. The 4th guy
suffered a severe illness, lost his job and was reduced to selling
matches in the street.
Nevertheless, the coffin reached England (causing other misfortunes
along the way), where it was bought by a London businessman.
After 3 of his family members had been injured in a road accident
and his house damaged by fire, the businessman donated it to
the British Museum. As the coffin was being unloaded from a truck
in the museum courtyard, the truck suddenly, without apparent
explanation, went into reverse and trapped a passer-by. Then
as the casket was being lifted up the stairs by 2 workmen, 1 fell
and broke his leg. The other, apparently in perfect health, died
unaccountably two days later.
Once the Princess was installed in the Egyptian Room, trouble
really started. The Museum's night watchmen frequently heard
frantic hammering and sobbing emanating from the coffin. Other
exhibits in the room were also often hurled about at night. One
watchman died on duty causing the other watchmen to quit.
Cleaners refused to go near the Princess too. When a visitor
derisively flicked a dust cloth at the face painted on the coffin,
his child died of measles soon afterwards.
Finally, the authorities had the mummy carried down to the
basement. Figuring it could not do any harm down there.
Within a week, one of the helpers who moved the coffin
was seriously ill and the supervisor of the move was found
dead at his desk.
By now, the papers had heard of it. A journalist photographer
took a picture of the mummy case and when he developed it,
the painting on the coffin resolved as a horrifying, human face.
The photographer was said to have gone home then, locked
his bedroom door and shot himself.
Soon afterwards, the museum sold the mummy to a private collector.
After continual misfortune (and deaths), the owner banished it to
the attic. A well known authority on the occult, Madame Helena
Blavatsky, visited the premises. Upon entry, she was seized with
a shivering fit and searched the house for the source of "an evil
influence of incredible intensity". She finally came to the attic
and
found the mummy case.
"Can you exorcise this evil spirit?" asked the owner.
"There is no such thing as exorcism. Evil remains evil forever.
Nothing can be done about it. I implore you to get rid of this evil
as soon as possible."
But no British museum would take the mummy; the fact that almost
20 people had met with misfortune, disaster or death from handling
the casket, in barely 10 years, was now well known.
Eventually, a hard-headed American archaeologist (who dismissed
the happenings as quirks of circumstance), paid a handsome price
for the mummy and arranged for its removal to New York.
In April 1912, the new owner escorted his treasure aboard a sparkling,
new White Star liner about to make its maiden voyage to New York.
On the night of April 14, amid scenes of unprecedented horror, the
Princess of Amen-Ra accompanied 1,500 passengers to their deaths
at the bottom of the Atlantic.
The name of the ship was Titanic.
King Tut's tomb was not discovered until 1922 by Howard Carter and
Lord Carnarvon, as it was concealed beneath the mud brick houses of the
workmen who cut the tomb of Ramesses VI. Most likely this tomb was not
carved for a king, but for a high official. But due to the fact that
King Tut died at an early age, the rooms were hastily converted. Items
for the afterlife were seemingly thrown into the various rooms. What
makes this particular find important is that the contents were untouched
by robbers. The real antiquities can be found in the Cairo Museum. The
pictures shown here are replicas indicating how they were positioned
when discovered by Carter.
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