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It's 1910, British Egyptogolist Douglas Murray is approached by an American who's appearance foretells the final stages of plague. The American presents Murray with an offer that seems to be the greatest find of his career, The 1600 BC coffin holding the remains of a high princess in the temple of Ammon-Ra of Thebes.
Murray accepts and draws a check, but the check is never cashed. The American dies that evening of his condition.
Murray later learns of the legacy behind the coffin's dweller. The princess held high office in the Cult of the Dead and the inscription in her tomb tells the tale of her demise and a curse for those who disturb her.
Murray then begins to encounter misfortune.
On a shooting expedition up the Nile, his gun mysteriously explodes in his hand and after weeks of hospitalization, his arm is amputated.
During his return home two of his friends die of "unknown causes" and two of the Egyptians who handled the coffin also die.
Eventually Murray decides to rid himself of the cursed "trophy".
A woman friend insists that he give it to her and he reluctantly complies.
Within weeks the woman's mother dies, her lover abandons her and she contracts an undiagnosed "wasting disease".
The woman then contacts Murray and he arranges it to be brought to the British Museum. There a photographer immediately drops dead after taking it's picture and an Egyptologist in charge of the exhibit dies in his sleep.
The board of the museum holds a discreet conference where they decide to have the exhibit shipped to a New York museum that accepts their gift.
The coffin is then boarded onto a luxuriously new vessel on her maiden voyage from Southhampton to New York.
The mummy never makes it to New York and instead remains cargo at the bottom of the ocean on an "unsinkable" ship that brings 1,498 people to their doom on April 15, 1912. The Titanic
Murray accepts and draws a check, but the check is never cashed. The American dies that evening of his condition.
Murray later learns of the legacy behind the coffin's dweller. The princess held high office in the Cult of the Dead and the inscription in her tomb tells the tale of her demise and a curse for those who disturb her.
Murray then begins to encounter misfortune.
On a shooting expedition up the Nile, his gun mysteriously explodes in his hand and after weeks of hospitalization, his arm is amputated.
During his return home two of his friends die of "unknown causes" and two of the Egyptians who handled the coffin also die.
Eventually Murray decides to rid himself of the cursed "trophy".
A woman friend insists that he give it to her and he reluctantly complies.
Within weeks the woman's mother dies, her lover abandons her and she contracts an undiagnosed "wasting disease".
The woman then contacts Murray and he arranges it to be brought to the British Museum. There a photographer immediately drops dead after taking it's picture and an Egyptologist in charge of the exhibit dies in his sleep.
The board of the museum holds a discreet conference where they decide to have the exhibit shipped to a New York museum that accepts their gift.
The coffin is then boarded onto a luxuriously new vessel on her maiden voyage from Southhampton to New York.
The mummy never makes it to New York and instead remains cargo at the bottom of the ocean on an "unsinkable" ship that brings 1,498 people to their doom on April 15, 1912. The Titanic
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