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archaeology: ‘Nobody is allowed to open the coffin’: Chilling letters warning of the curse of Tutankhamun sent to real-life tomb raider Howard Carter are up for sale The man who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, Howard Carter, was inundated with sinister letters warning him of ‘the curse of the pharaohs’, his newly released archives have revealed. The legend was fuelled at the the time by newspaper reports and famous contemporaries like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, who believed the ‘curse’ was to blame for a number of mysterious deaths of those on Howard’s team. Howard’s descendents are now selling all his papers, photos, effects and other ‘wonderful things’ that have remained with the family. The collection, which is valued at £150,000, also includes correspondence from believer’s in the Pharaoh’s infamous ‘curse’. There are several letters from a Margit Labouchere, who stated in one: ‘Tot ench Amon is not in his tomb… Nobody is allowed to open the coffin. Listen to your inward voice.’ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146458/Nobody-allowed-open-coffin-The-seen-letters-curse-Tutankhamun-sent-Howard-Carter—brave-buy-them.html#ixzz1wIISKhe9

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‘Nobody is allowed to open the coffin’: Chilling letters warning of the curse of Tutankhamun sent to real-life tomb raider Howard Carter are up for sale

The man who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, Howard Carter, was inundated with sinister letters warning him of ‘the curse of the pharaohs’, his newly released archives have revealed.

The legend was fuelled at the the time by newspaper reports and famous contemporaries like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, who believed the ‘curse’ was to blame for a number of mysterious deaths of those on Howard’s team.

Howard’s descendents are now selling all his papers, photos, effects and other ‘wonderful things’ that have remained with the family.

The collection, which is valued at £150,000, also includes correspondence from believer’s in the Pharaoh’s infamous ‘curse’.

There are several letters from a Margit Labouchere, who stated in one: ‘Tot ench Amon is not in his tomb… Nobody is allowed to open the coffin. Listen to your inward voice.’



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146458/Nobody-allowed-open-coffin-The-seen-letters-curse-Tutankhamun-sent-Howard-Carter—brave-buy-them.html#ixzz1wIISKhe9




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Elijah:
All those days of playing "Cup."
Dom:
Oh, “Cup!”
Billy:
Oh yea!
Sean:
“Cup” was fun.
Dom:
A fantastic game.
Billy:
"Cup," eh, by the way, is where you take a paper cup, and-
Sean:
Dixie.
Billy:
A Dixie cup, if you're American, and-
Dom:
Or a paper cup, if you speak English.
Billy:
And you, you keep it up, just by passing it to each other. Which sounds quite boring, but if you're waiting for a, uh, a helicopter for four days, it becomes the main way to pass the day.
Dom:
I would just like to say here, that it's an original Dominic Monaghan game, available online at my website. Eh, you can use different cups, but if you want, you can log onto my website and get an official “Cup” cup.
Billy:
dominicmonaghanscrazygames.com.
Dom:
And another game, called “Nudge,” which Billy is a huge fan of. So, if anyone wants me to get involved in game making, I’m available.
Elijah:
Speaking of game making, what was the name of the fake game that ya’ll tried to get me into?
Dom:
OH! Uh…
Dom:
T-t-“tig?” “Tag?”
Elijah:
“Tig!”
Sean:
“Tig!”
Elijah:
“Tig!”
Sean:
That was good!
Elijah:
Oh my god!
Billy:
And “Tig,” eh, it was when we were filming Weathertop, and myself and Dom just started tiggin’ each other, you know, touchin’ each other and going’ “tig.” Just, like, for no reason! And then Sean came over-
Sean:
Slightly different from “Tag.”
Billy:
And he came over and started doin’ it as well, “tig.” And then, we’d say “tig tig,” “tig tag,” like, for no reason! And, eh, and then Elijah came over and said “What you guys doin’?” I said “Oh, we’re playing a game, eh, called ‘Tig.’” He says “How do you play?” And we spent, like, the next two hours making up rules!
Elijah:
And, and trying to teach me, and of course I was getting everything wrong.
Sean:
He couldn’t follow the game, and the three of us were forever frustrated that he wasn’t following these new rules that we would continue to make up.
Dom:
So we would play, the three of us were all constantly getting it right. Every time Elijah’d try a new way of tiggin’ someone, we’d say “No, Elijah, you can’t tig on a tog. You can’t tag on a tig. You have to, you have to do an elephant impression if you’re gonna tig Billy. If Billy’s gonna tig you back you have to get on your knees and pull your trousers down.”
Billy:
“How many times, Elijah, you can’t double-tig a tag!”
Dom:
Yea. And, and for, like, three weeks he was saying how much he enjoyed playing “Tig,” and that he, uh-
Sean:
He wanted to get the rule book.
Billy:
But you remember that we forgot to say it was a wind-up. And it was, like, a year later, he says “Why do we never play ‘Tig?’”
Elijah:
And then they finally let it, let the cat out of the bag. My whole world came shattering down on me when they told me that that was a lie. ‘Cause I, for a whole year, I believed that that was a real game, and then they told me, and I-
Dom:
I’m sorry, Elijah.
Billy:
Sorry, Elijah.
Elijah:
“What else, what else was not true?” That’s what I was asking.
Sean:
It undermines the integrity of the entire relationship.
Dom:
Yea.
Elijah:
That’s what I think.
Dom:
It was part of the whole bonding experience.
Billy:
Although, me and Dom are actually just lies.
Billy:
Big, fat lies.

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