and lord carnarvon's friend howard carter entered the tomb with lord carnarvon. a few weeks later, a cobra eats his pet canary. that bird abruptly changed his tune. it's all in here. 1912--the british museum has a cursed mummy. they ship it to america... on the titanic! that's a totally unsubstantiated rumor. look, we've worked on the mummy all afternoon nothing. ow! it drew blood! i did it, vinnie, through my own impatience. it's a warning! ignore it at your peril! it rained the other day. the wood swelled. you're playing with fire, howser. it's like with my great-aunt nicolina. she toured the catacombs in sicily, sat on some coffin, mistaking it for an elaborate bench, and three weeks later-- she falls face-down in the street, dead! she was 96. she was a robust 96! these are stories from the old country... superstitions. you're in the 20th century, you're a college student. you have to break away from your past. i don't know. there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. you're afraid of this mummy because you don't

lord carnarvon died first--from the bite of a mere mosquito.death closed over him in april of 1923, only a few months after the opening of the tomb, the lights of cairo extinguished with him. stranger still, at the same instant in england, his dog gave a terrifying howl and died. then georges benedite, the head of egyptian antiquities at the louvre museum, died of a stroke after leaving a tomb. still another death occurred-- that of arthur c. mace from the metropolitan museum in new york, who was assisting carter. the bizarre events surrounding the opening of tutankhamun's tomb appear today to have been merely coincidental. the unextinguishable legend of the mummy's curse had begun. who was this king? what was he like? what did he achieve in a life lived 34 centuries ago? we don't know for sure. all we have are images. even with its discovery, the tomb still refuses to yield many of its secrets. we know only that the young boy king, tutankhamun, grew up during one of the most turbulent periods in egypt's long history. it was a time when the sta