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Mummy's Curse
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According to popular legend, all of those present at the opening of King Tut's Tomb
in Egypt were destined to die early due to a curse placed upon the tomb by the
Egyptians when Tut was buried. This legend has survived for over 150 years, but
its biggest boost came with the death of George Herbert, the man who financed
the 1923 expedition to open Tutankhamen's tomb.
Recent studies have, however, revealed that no such curse exists. According to Mark Nelson, an epidemiologist from Monash University in Ausralia, the 25 people who could be said to have been directly exposed to a "Mummy's Curse" lived to an average age of 70.5 years; those who were not so exposed lived to an average age of 75 years. In his article in the British Medical Journal, Nelso explained that this difference is not statistically significance - therefore, those exposed to the "curse" didn't really live significantly less time than those not.
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