The "curse of the pharaohs" or "curse of the mummies" was originally called a series of strange deaths that befell the participants in the opening of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922.
For several years, for various reasons, 22 people were killed who were present at the opening of the tomb and the removal of artifacts from there.
Later, this term was applied to other archaeological finds, when those scientists and archaeologists who were involved in their discovery and study died.
It is assumed that the ancients imposed deadly curses on the tombs in order to frighten the plunderers. And that these curses are not just words, but actually working magic.
Scientists usually regard these "curses" as mere press fiction and superstition. In their opinion, people could die from toxic mold in the tomb or various infections that are widespread in warm and humid climates.
However, the Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass will not get any easier from the fact that he considers the "curse of the pharaohs" to be fiction. According to him, he believes in the curse, as he almost became its victim.
Zahi Hawass, 71, is not just an archaeologist, but also a former Minister of State for Antiquities of Egypt. And yet he believes that he was affected by the curse of the mummies found in the so-called Valley of the Golden Mummies in the Bahariya oasis.
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In this place, archaeologists have found a huge burial of mummies, more than 10 thousand. Zahi Hawass also took part in the research and personally found two baby mummies, which were later displayed in the museum.
In 2017, Netflix released the documentary Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries, which, among other things, told about the curse of the mummies and showed an interview with Zaha Hawass.
And in this interview, Hawass said that in a dream those two baby mummies appeared to him for some time.
At first, he simply saw their faces in a dream, and in the subsequent dream, one of the mummies reached out to his throat, as if trying to strangle him.
At first Hawass didn't know what to do. But then an insight came to him or something suggested that the children want to be reunited with their parents.
After the two baby mummies were laid next to the mummy of their probable father (next to whom they were originally discovered), the nightmares with the mummies stopped tormenting the archaeologist.