The Curse Business

The Curse Business examines grave robbery and power behind the myth of cursed Egyptian tombs. Ancient robbery investigations, burial wealth, official incentives, institutional security, environmental damage, and modern publicity reveal the interests surrounding the dead. Beginning with testimony from the Amherst tomb robbery papyrus, the book distinguishes coerced ancient accounts from unfiltered eyewitness evidence. It also considers the modern story surrounding Tutankhamun’s tomb and Lord Carnarvon’s death without claiming to diagno...