King Tut's Tomb

By Jessica Ferri. When a group of British archeologists opened the tomb of King Tut in 1922, one of the team was bitten by a mosquito and died a few days later. After another member died from a fever about a month after the excavation, rumors of a protective curse began to circulate. Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle talked about the curse as if it were real, no doubt using it as a publicity ploy to sell his books.