What is the Connection Between The Titanic and Egypt?

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There are debates, if this story is really true or not, but here goes.

The mummy is question is that of the Egyptian Princess Amen-Ra. Some say it is that of a high priestess of the same name buried in Luxor, the ancient city of Thebes 3500 years ago. But nevertheless, the mummy was supposedly discovered in the 1800s probably by some people raiding a tomb or by some archeologist (details are not clear) and it was bought by some Englishmen visiting Egypt from an Egyptian. The stories vary about how and who bought the mummy. Some say it was bought at a party by some Englishmen hosted by an English lady and the consul, Mustaph Aga who gave a fete where an Arab sold them the mummy. Another version was that four rich young Englishmen visited the excavations at Luxor and were invited to buy the mummy’s case containing the remains. They drew lots and the man who won paid several thousand pounds and asked for it to be transported to his hotel. Sometime later, he was seen walking into the desert and never came back.

The different versions I read, agree on what happened to the other three. One was shot in the arm, some say accidently by the servant, others say by accident while quail hunting, and the arm had to be amputated. The third discovered on his journey back to England that his bank, which had his entire savings had failed taking his savings with it and the fourth man, lost his job and became a beggar on the streets.

When the coffin and the mummy reached England, a London businessman bought it. Three of his family members were injured in an accident and his house was damaged by fire. He then donated it to the British museum. While unloading it from the truck, the truck moved back and trapped a person walking by. One of the people who carried it broke his leg and the other who was healthy died two days later.

Night watchmen complained about hearing sobbing and frantic banging from the coffin at night and seeing other exhibits flying through the air. One of the watchmen died while on duty. Some of the workers quit. When a visitor brazenly flicked a dust cloth in the face, which is painted on the coffin, his child died of measles.

The museum authorities had enough and took the mummy to the basement where it could do no harm. However, one of the helpers got seriously ill and the supervisor who was in charge of the move died at his desk. When a photographer photographed the case, he looked at the developed picture and saw a horrifying human face. He then went home, locked his bedroom door and shot himself.

A private collector bought the mummy and put it in his attic. Madame Helena Blavatsky, a spiritualist, when she entered the house, felt an evil presence and searched the house for the source of it. She finally went to the attic and determined that it came from the coffin that held the mummy.

Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870- 1907), a noted politician, sportsman and a literary figure spent months researching the truths of these tragedies related to the mummy, and before he could complete his investigation, he died suddenly. His acquaintances like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, thought it was the mummy’s curse that was responsible for his death. Doyle had also warned Robison against investigating these tragedies. His death was supposedly by typhoid fever.

A new owner decided to take the mummy to New York aboard a new ship making its maiden voyage, On the night of April 15th, 1912, it went down along with 1500 passengers and crew to their deaths to the bottom of the Atlantic when the Titanic sank after striking and iceberg. The legend began immediately after the sinking. One of the passengers, Federic Kimber Seward and others talked about how William T. Stead told other passengers of a mummy that brought a curse on those who owned her and was in the British museum.

However, it seems that the mummy never left the museum. Another source says that the mummy was on board the Titanic, but the case is still in the museum, and the mummy went down with the Titanic. But nevertheless, if you go to the British museum, you will find №22542 in the Egyptian Mummy Room on the second floor, which is a lid of a coffin. As for the mummy being on board the Titanic, some sources say that when the survivors reached New York and mentioned about what William Stead told them about the tragedies the mummy brought, many people got confused and assumed that it was on board the Titanic. They also assumed that the mummy was also responsible for the Titanic’s sinking. William Stead was last seen in the First-Class Smoking Room reading a book as the Titanic sank, and he drowned that night.

So, if you visit the British museum, ask them if the mummy is in the coffin or not.

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