The Curse of Tutankhamun

Four months after the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, the financier of the excavation, Lord Carnarvon, dropped dead. Weeks later, railroad magnate George Jay Gould died after visiting the site, as did several others associated with the King Tut discovery. Were all these people victims of a pharaoh's curse? Using rare archival footage, plus insights from Egyptologists and cultural historians, we piece together the story of the archeological find of the century and explore the chilling history of the world's most famous curse.