FREE: The Curse of the Pharaohs by Philipp Vandenberg

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Ex-library book with library binding and name stamped on the top of the book. Has the library envelope on the first blank page along with a sticker at the top. The first two pages when you open the book are a map of Egypt and the bottom is torn at the binding. The binding is also showing in the back of the book.


"I don't believe in the curse of the pharaohs," said Dr. Gamal Mehrez, director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, in an interview with Philipp Vandenberg. Four weeks later, on the same day that Tutankhamen's golden mask was being readied for a trip to London, Mehrez died at age fifty-two from circulatory collapse.

His was only the latest in a series of more than thirty untimely deaths of researchers and archaeologists who have excavated in Egypt since 1900. Why did they die? Did the ancient Egyptians deliberately turn their pharaohs' rock-bound tombs into death traps for the unwary--4,000 years later?

Delving into the pyramids' fatal secrets, Philipp Vandenberg discovered three principal causes for the deaths of those who dared to ignore the curse: fever with delusions, strokes accompanied by circulatory collapse, and sudden cancers that were quickly terminal. In this fast-paced, perceptive book, the author links those deaths to several remarkable but scientifically plausible explanations while taking the reader on a fascinating excursion into ancient Egyptian history, customs, medicine, and science, concluding that the Egyptians were scientific geniuses who knew many things that we still do not.

The Curse of the Pharaohs is a sometimes startling, always informative book, well grounded in fact, that will appeal to every one who wants a knowledgeable investigation into heretofore inexplicable phenomena.