2023-06-21 05:22:11
As with any historical event, many mystery theories have been attributed to the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912. There are claims that the ship was deliberately sunk for insurance purposes. But the most famous of these relates to an Egyptian mummy. The story of the sinking of the Titanic was a mummy’s curse. The woman lived in Egypt around 1500 BC. She was a priestess of Amun Ra, the most powerful god in ancient Egypt. Eventually they passed away. The body was then mummified in the Egyptian fashion of the day, placed in a richly painted coffin and buried in a tomb in the city of Luxor on the banks of the Nile.
Late 19th century. It was a time when the culture of Egypt and its mummies fascinated the European people. 4 British youths who came to Egypt that day bought the mummy of the aforementioned priest. A number of incidents followed. The man who spent the most money among the four started walking into the desert that evening. He never came back.
An Egyptian shot one of the remaining three. His hand was badly injured and it was amputated. When the third member of the gang returned home, he lost all the money he had earned and went bankrupt. A fourth member of the group became seriously ill and spent the rest of his life on the streets.
But Purohita’s mum came to Britain. There a rich man bought this mummy at a price. But with 3 members of his family dying immediately, the rich man gave the mummy to the British Museum. One of the two workers who brought the mummy to the museum in a truck had a major accident the next day and the other died two days later. The mummy was placed in a museum but the transcendental experiences continued. The watchmen working at night heard cries and whimpers from where the mummy was located. A watchman died unexpectedly in the line of duty.
With this mummy became famous all over Britain. It was known by various names such as Priestess of Curses and Unlucky Mummy. A newspaper photographer took a picture of the mummy’s coffin. But when it developed, he was shocked. What appeared instead of the probe was a human face…The photographer lost his balance in the horrific scene, went into his room, closed the door and shot himself.
With this, the museum officials were scared and started trying to sell the mummy. Then an American who had no faith in any of these things bought the mummy at a price and tried to take it to the US on the Titanic. But the mummy’s curse did not spare the Titanic either. It was his first trip to disaster.
The above is the mummy story related to the Titanic. The story was very popular in Europe and the US. There was also a related story that the Titanic was wrecked but the mummy was put in a lifeboat and brought to the US on the ship Carpathia.
But the fact is that this story believed by many people is a fabricated story. It is true that the British Museum has a mummy of an unknown historical figure believed to be the priest of Amun Ra. The mummy can still be seen in the museum today as artifact number 22542. But officials say the mummy never left the British Museum. The story is believed to have been concocted by a journalist named William Stead and a self-proclaimed historian named Douglas Murray.
Even before the Titanic disaster, both had published stories regarding this mummy in the British Museum. There were stories that the mummy’s face in the coffin was sad and this was because of the hardships she had experienced in her previous life and that the mummy might bring bad luck. William Stead was also aboard the Titanic. It has been suggested that Stead may have told the passengers that the mummy was on the Titanic following the accident and that it was her curse that led to the accident, which may have been the origin of this myth. However, all historians who have researched the story say one thing strongly…it was not the mummy that sank the Titanic, but an iceberg.
Content summary : Titanic and the curse of the sad Mummy
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