Strange Coincidences Surrounding Pharaoh's Curse

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In 1992, historian Christopher Frayling presented a series for BBC about the impact Tutankhamen's discovery had, had on western civilization. He made a list of strange coincidences that could have ended in disaster while making this special.

The lights abruptly going out when I first mentioned the curse while standing over Tutankhamen's glass-topped sarcophagus deep with in the tomb itself; the sound packing up for no apparent reason, when I started my commentary next to the gold portrait mask of the Pharaoh in the Egyptian museum a sudden trouble with gallstones (the illness Howard Carter suffered from in the early 1920's) midway through the shoot; the snapping of the main cable holding up the elevator in the Cairo hotel where we were staying and it's dramatic fall for twenty-one floors with the director and the presenter still in the elevator; a very nasty respiratory attack ... virtually the entire crew getting conjunctivitis after we had filmed a night-time sequence in the Valley of the Queens about [Weigall's Attempt] to raise the ghost of Akhenaton.

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