#Egyptian curses

[letsgethaunted]

The Mummy's Curse - Pharaoh Tutankhamun's Gold

This week Nat leads Aly down a rabbit hole about Ancient Egyptian curses! Even before humans could translate the hieroglyphs on ancient Egyptian tombs, rumors existed that curses were written on the entrance to a Pharaoh's final resting place. The most famous of ancient Egyptian curses was enacted in 1922 after the discovery of King Tutankhamen's 3,300 year old sealed tomb. 9 of the 52 people present at the tomb's opening ended up dying of sudden illness or freak accidents immediately following the opening of the tomb. Join us on this haunted adventure through the past, if you dare!

[royalsandcourtiers]

Creepy History: The Curse of the Pharaohs (Tutankhamun Edition)

Creepy History: The Curse of the Pharaohs (Tutankhamun Edition)

Mummies have fascinated popular imagination since the days of their earliest discoveries. Fictionalised accounts of mummies coming back to life have been a staple of the horror genre since 1827 with the publication of ‘The Mummy! A Tale of the 22nd Century’ in which the mummy of Cheops (an actual Egyptian pharaoh) was reanimated. Unlike the shambling undead horrors that stalk and terrorise the…

[asterlocke]

MUMMY VENTURE IS HERE!!

they definitely should stop touching random (probably definitely cursed) artifacts...

(og design is from @zandiiangelspit !!)

[eliounora]

the ghost of an old king

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

I need Billy to get Clark Kent-ed in a fic and sent to cover a Wayne gala

Billy and Bruce meet, names are exchanged, and Bruce worries if this kid is doing okay and if there’s a father position open. Billy is there for some Wayne-Sivana partnership with Magnificus, asking a lot of well informed questions and acting like a little cherub.

Them bad guys break in, one has a gun to Billy’s head and Billy, in true street kid fashion and with the experience from his last 57 kidnapping attempts; bites the hand over his mouth, throws the guy whose twice his size over himself and twists his arm, and dismantles the gun before Batman swoops in and saves the rest of the day.

Batman checks on him, asking if he’s okay, and Billy drops the good kid act and straight up tells him to piss off because he’s not getting adopted by a furry man-child who lives a state away from his hometown

Any Robin or sidekick that was there just cheers the kid on from the roof top screaming “DODGED THAT BULLET!” after having spent the whole gala trying to keep them apart before Bruce could bust out the adoption papers

[blueiscoool]

‘Curse’ Behind King Tutankhamun’s Tomb Mysterious Deaths Finally Solved

The unsettling curse of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt has bewildered archaeologists since it’s been feared to be linked to the mysterious deaths of multiple excavators who discovered it in 1922.

However, a scientist now claims to have solved the mysteries of the infamous “Pharaoh’s Curse” more than 100 years later.

Toxic levels of radiation emanating from uranium and poisonous waste are believed to have lingered inside the tomb since it was sealed over 3,000 years ago, Ross Fellowes wrote last month in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE).

The burial chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun, near Luxor, Egypt.

The radiation level inside Tutankhamun’s tomb is so high that anyone who comes in contact with it could very likely develop a fatal dose of radiation sickness and cancer.

“Both contemporary and ancient Egypt populations are characterized by unusually high incidences of hematopoietic cancers, of bone/blood/lymph, for which a primary known cause is radiation exposure,” Fellowes wrote in his study.

However, this radioactivity isn’t isolated to Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Fellowes revealed that “unusually high radiation levels have been documented in Old Kingdom tomb ruins” and spread throughout sites in Egypt.

“Radiation has been detected by the Geiger counter at two sites at Giza adjacent to the pyramids,” he wrote, adding that radon — a radioactive gas — has also been detected in “several underground tombs at Saqqara.”

The “Coffinette for the Viscera of Tutankhamun,” which contained the king’s mummified liver, depicts him as Osiris, holding a crook and flail.

Medical imagery of Tutankhamun is shown above a replica of King Tut’s skull on display during the “Tutankhamun And The Golden Age Of The Pharaohs” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.

These readings were all found to be “intensely radioactive.”

“Modern studies confirm very high levels of radiation in ancient Egyptian tombs, in the order of 10x accepted safety standards,” the study shared.

It’s also theorized that those who built the ancient tombs were aware of the toxins based on the eerie warnings carved on the walls.

“The nature of the curse was explicitly inscribed on some tombs, with one translated presciently as, ‘they that break this tomb shall meet death by a disease that no doctor can diagnose,’” Fellowes wrote.

Outside the tomb of Tutankhamun during the 1922 excavation in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.

Other ominous translations like “forbidden” because of “evil spirits” may have significantly fueled the fear that supernatural curses lingered in the ancient sites.

Those fears intensified with the mysterious deaths of Lord Carnarvon, who funded the excavation in 1922 and reportedly walked through the treasured filled rooms — and multiple others after they unsealed the tomb.

“Carnarvon was dead within a few weeks of the uncertain diagnosis of blood poisoning and pneumonia,” Fellowes wrote.

Egyptologist Howard Carter (R) walks with archaeologist Lord Carnarvon, the patron of his research, outside the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.

Egyptologist Arthur Weigall allegedly told colleagues that Carnarvon would “be dead within six weeks” upon entering, the study claimed.

Howard Carter, the first person to walk inside Tutankhamun’s tomb with Carnarvon, died in 1939 after a long battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which was suspected to be caused by radiation poisoning.

British Egyptologist and independent excavator Arthur Weigall was present at the opening of Tut’s Tomb and is also credited with starting the ‘myth’ of the curse.

He died of cancer at 54 years old in 1934.

Workers remove a tray of chariot parts from the Tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, in 1922.

In total, six of the 26 people present when the tomb was opened died within a decade from asphyxia, stroke, diabetes, heart failure, pneumonia, poisoning, malaria and X-ray exposure.

While the deaths can be seen as odd, the curse theory was also likely fueled by the oddities that happened when it opened.

Carnarvon had reportedly suffered a mosquito bite that became severely infected.

Around the time excavators opened the tomb, Cairo reportedly suffered a bizarre power outage and a freak sandstorm, according to National Geographic.’

At one point during the excavation, Carnarvon’s favorite dog allegedly let out a chilling howl and suddenly dropped dead.

A photograph showing guards standing outside the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt in 1922.

A sacred cow being removed from Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.

From a historical perspective, the discovery of the tomb in the Valley of Kings is considered one of the most fascinating finds that gave modern society a glimpse into the Egyptian royalty voyage into the afterlife.

Five thousand items, including solid gold funeral shoes, statues, games, and strange animals, were discovered inside Tutankhamun’s tombs.

It would take the excavators ten years to clear the tomb of its treasure.

The golden funerary mask of Tutankhamun.

The unsealing and studying of the tomb is also credited with launching the modern era of Egyptology.

Tutankhamun took the throne as pharaoh around nine or ten years old and ruled between 1332 BC and 1323 BC.

However, he died by the time he turned 18.

There are no surviving records of Tutankhamun’s death and how the young pharaoh died remains a mystery.

However, Tutankhamun is suspected to have suffered from several health issues — likely linked to his father, Akhenaten, and his mother, Nefertiti, being brother and sister.

By Richard Pollina.

[chelseajackarmy]

Yu-Gi-Oh!

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[kujakumai]

I think a lot about how in DSoD we found out Bakura got the ring like...way younger than most people, or at least I, previously assumed he had. Upon his introduction I assumed that maybe he had the ring for like, max a few years? But in DSoD he’s definitely a grade-schooler or younger. It’s tough to tell how young exactly because we know Takahashi is Not Good with timelines, or designing children in a way that makes sense, but he is definitely very small. 

I guess that does partially explain why he keeps holding on to the ring? He’s literally just used to it? Ryou Bakura hasn’t been blacking out since 9th grade, he’s been blacking out since he learned how to read. 

[chocolatetheoristcloud]

So I just thought about got an idea:

Warning: dark content, sensitive content, the mummy, cursing, murder, violence, curse,dark history, Egyptian reader, sacrifice, manipulation,bad English because English is not my first language.

So you know the movie 'The Mummy 2017' right where the princess was buried alive due to her crimes right so how about.

And AU where the reader suffered from the same fate but for a different purpose.

Like for say the reader was a young 14 year old girl who was one of the most beautiful girl in the whole kingdom.

Who was next in line for the throne but what the girl didn't know was she was going to be in a arranged wedding with another prince who lived in the other end of Egypt.

And whom she was to be buried with, when he died. The girl like anybody else was shocked and was anger.

So on the Tonight before her wedding the girl made a deal with the death god. And later that tonight she murdered her father and future husband.

Her husband by poison and her father by a sharp blade to the throat. When the girl was found for murder she was punished for crimes by being buried alive.

After years of being dead she arises from the dead to a new world a Shinobi World and then the blood bath and chaos happens with her only wanting one thing

Revenge and pain...

[ava-of-shenanigans]

I may have already made this post but I love the part in Set and the Seed Goddess when Ra calls Set stupid and Anat immediately starts yelling magic words at him. No attempt to argue “no, my husband/boyfriend/whatever-their-relationship-is isn’t stupid,” just straight to “ONE THOUSAND CURSES UPON YOU FATHER!”

[the-slender-doll]

Today on "Look what digital art I've been cooking for my AU for two weeks"

For those curious: These are cursed human designs of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses for my Cursed God AU! I've finally gotten around to doing colored pieces with them involved!

We have:

A portrait of Thoth with an African Sacred Ibis

Thoth with his wife Maat prior to the cursing - Side note: M'aat has burns around her eyes as part of her AU design (which I really struggled hard and not completely happy with) due to her being a fallen angel and punished with near complete blindness prior to falling. I tried my best.

Anubis, Set, Thoth, Horus and Khonsu in my Battle Portraits series

Both sets of group images of Thoth Khonsu and Horus I did for my Instagram involving their battle portraits and chibi forms

Finally a portrait of chibi Anubis!

I hope you enjoy my work!

Other Cursed God AU stuff I've posted!

[starryskyx]

I've been having A LOT of spider dreams, also seeing A LOT of spiders and I seen this happening to someone else. Other witches were saying a deity could be reaching out? Does anyone know what deities are associated with spiders? OR if this is some kind of bad energy sent from someone?Cause I can't tell.

[aimarskloset]

Ghostly Gazette #6

[wailmutt]

another ref done for amygdalas universe hee hee hoo

reposting amygdala with this one too so theyre together

shoutout to noodle for letting me loredump

[bijoumikhawal]

Happy Shom Ennesim, may you not be subjected to the horrors of someone trying to kiss you after eating fesikh.