Indeed, a famous writer offered a very similar curse: Howard Carter was far from alone in making an effort to scare away potential grave robbers with the threat of supernatural wrath. In fact, the tombs of all royalty - not just Tutankhamun's - were said to have exactly the same 'curse' and had been opened with no resulting evil effects. In order to keep the press at bay and yet allow them a sensational aspect with which to deal, the head of the excavation team, Howard Carter, put out a story that a curse had been placed upon anyone who violated the rest of the boy-king.' Carter did not invent the idea of a cursed tomb, but he did exploit it to keep intruders away from his history-making discovery. So where did the curse come from? According to Randi, 'When Tut's tomb was discovered and opened in 1922, it was a major archaeological event.
