While the idea that Tutankhamun’s tomb was protected by a curse that wreaked havoc on the lives of all associated with its discovery has been proved baseless numerous times, it does not stop people from coming up with potential causes for the alleged “curse” deaths (see FT304:16-17, 386:28-36, 422:15).
Writing in the peer-reviewed Journal of Scientific Exploration, Ross Fellowes proposed that blood cancers caused by radiation could have been responsible for at least some of the deaths, suggesting that the ancient Egyptians deliberately seeded their tombs with radioactive materials to protect them. He says, “A survey of modern-era field Egyptologists reveals a very high incidence of unusual deaths consistent with symptoms of hæmatopoietic cancer, a scenario that parallels radiation sickness caused by exposure to abnormally high radiation previously reported in…
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