Is King Tut's pyramid cursed? My son would like to know?

It isn't really cursed. There are just a lot of ancient traps and such.
Is King Tut's pyramid cursed? My son would like to know?
Huh? King Tut did not HAVE a pyramid.. he was buried BELOW GROUND in the Valley of the KINGS and the entrance was COVERED OVER which is why the grave robbers didn't find him





As for being cursed... there were certainly some strange deaths associated with some of the people who opened the tomb... but it is generally discounted that the tomb was really cursed.
Is King Tut's pyramid cursed? My son would like to know?
Its King Tut's sarcophagus, not a pyramid. A little research will reveal that absolutely King Tut's tomb is cursed.
Reply:A better question might be is King Tut's tomb cursed, since he never had a pryamid. Some say yes, other say no. Try the link below and decide for yourself.
Reply:Tut ruled after the era of pyramid building ended. He was buried in a slightly less grand tomb in the Valley of the Kings. I say slightly less in comparison to the pyramids themselves. It was still much more grand than a normal person would hope to be buried in.





Now, as for Tut's tomb being cursed the correct answer is yes and no. Yes, if you actually believe the stories. But in actuality, no. The stories point to the various deaths of those connected with the discovery of the tomb. Yet the one death that is left suspicously out of those stories is that of Howard Carter, the man who actually discovered Tut's tomb and was the first inside in more than a thousand years. And why is his death left out of the stories of the curse? Because he died March 2, 1939, just over 16 years after he opened the door into the burial chamber (February 16, 1923) and heading on to 17 years after the discovery of the tomb (November 4, 1922 with the first breach in the tomb being made November 23rd of that same year). Carter is the one who breached the seal into the tomb itself, if anyone should have died almost immediately of the curse it's Carter. Lord Canarvon is one of the big reasons for the Mummy's Curse, dieing April 5, 1923, nearly two months after the man he sponsored entered the burial chamber. Yet Carter himself outlived the "curse" and so did Lady Evelyn Herbert, who was present with her farther when Carter opened the tomb November 23, 1922 and died at the ripe old age of 79 in 1980. And they weren't the only ones to live for years afterwards.





See the links below for a little more on the curse and when folks died.
Reply:It's a tomb, not a pyramid. The Valley of the Kings has a pyramid shaped mountain that towers over it, and the tombs were dug and hidden in the valley.





Tomb robbing was constant throughout Egyptian history. Tut's tomb is unique in that it, while robbed, wasn't emptied. The question has always been if it was an especially rich tomb or if this was the standard. Tut had returned Egypt to the old gods so the richness might have been a way for the priests to say thanks. balckouts.





Now the curse. Lord Carnarvon, died shortly after the the tomb was opened. He'd bankrolled the dig and had spent time in the tomb. He was first bitten bitten on the cheek by a mosquito and later cut the bite open while shaving. As there were no antibiotics, the wound became infected and he died. Supposedly the lights in Cairo went out just when he died. A dog at his home in England howled and so on. The electrical system in 1923 Cairo was very bad and there were always.





Since then there's tales of a curse cut into the stone of the tomb (there isn't) and people have published long lists of death of those that worked on the tomb, lived in the area, handled stuff from the tomb, were the second cousin twice removed of...you get the picture.





What should be noted is Lord Carnarvon was in his late 50s when he died. Carter the archaeologist died at 65 some 16 years after opening the tomb. Lady Evelyn, Carnarvon's daughter was about 22 when the tomb was opened. She lived to age 79.
Reply:As far as I can remember, his tomb was cursed, they had lots or pitfalls built in so that if anyone tried to steal anything from the tomb they would be killed somehow, thats all I remember from my school days, getting old lol! :)