Tutankhamun's pipes are two long, thin, straight pipes found in 1922 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter in the tomb of the young Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun.
One of the pipes is made of silver and wood, the other is made of bronze or copper (no precise research has been carried out), and both are considered the most ancient working pipes and the only pipes of ancient Egypt that have survived in full.
The bronze pipe was found in the room in front of the chamber with the sarcophagus and was in the chest, which also contained various weapons and a cane. The silver pipe lay in the burial chamber itself.
On the wide part of one pipe, miniature images of the gods Ra, Ptah and Amon are finely engraved. The wide part of the other pipe is decorated with drawings of leaves and lotus flowers.
The silver pipe is 57 cm long, the bronze one is slightly shorter.
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The bronze trumpet, which had been silent for more than 3 millennia, sounded again on April 16, 1939, when a special concert was held at the Cairo Museum and was broadcast live on BBC radio for 150 million listeners. And literally five minutes before the start of the broadcast, electricity went out in the entire building, so we had to play the trumpet by candlelight.
And five months after this performance, Great Britain entered the war with Germany and the Second World War began.
Later, the former Minister of Antiquities of Egypt Zahi Hawass and Egyptologist Hala Hassan repeatedly argued that dark mystical forces are associated with the trumpets of Tutankhamun, capable of causing wars, as well as cutting out the lights in the entire city.
And it was not only the precedent of 1939, the trumpet was later played several more times, including almost before the start of the six-day Arab-Israeli war in 1967, as well as in 1990, right before the start of the Gulf War and in 2011, exactly one week before the Egyptian Revolution, when a representative of the Cairo Museum decided to demonstrate the sound of the trumpet in front of the Japanese delegation.
There are also reports that electricity was cut off at least two more times during attempts to play Tutankhamun's trumpet in Cairo.
In the same 2011, when the bronze trumpet was played for the last time, after the start of the revolution, during the attack of looters on the museum, the pipe was stolen and it disappeared without a trace. But suddenly, mysteriously, it was found a few weeks later.
Perhaps those who stole it learned about the terrible power of the pipe and hurried to get rid of the cursed object.
Since 2011, no one has played the bronze trumpet of Tutankhamun, according to the English-language Wikipedia …
