In the British Museum there is a coffin lid to which many misfortunes are attributed, including the sinking of the Titanic
The unlucky mummy of the Titanic: truth or myth?
In it British Museum in London there is an object that ensures that is cursed or brings bad luckMultiple misfortunes have even been attributed to it, including the collapse of the Titanic. Is about an egyptian coffin lid that once covered the mummy of a woman.
After the sinking of the Titanic, rumor spread among the survivors that This mummy was traveling inside the ocean linerwhich caused the story to become well known and people began to believe that the mummy had been the cause of the fateful accident.
”It all started because many years later it began to be rumored that the cause of the shipwreck had been the mummy that was traveling on the Titanic. And a mummy was not traveling, it is true that there are some Egyptian objects that a first class passenger took to a museum, but the mummy was not there,” he begins by explaining Carmen Porter.
javier sierra he wanted to clarify what happened, ”No, the mummy was not there. It is a very beautiful story, we are talking about 10 years before the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb therefore, still that story of the pharaoh’s curse seemed unpopular, except in one place, the British Museum. Instead of a mummy we would have to talk about the lid of a sarcophagus, she is not exactly a mummy. This archaeological piece there They know her as the bad luck mummy’’.
”What they say, here comes the legend, is that this sarcophagus lid had traveled on the Titanic and that they had recovered it from the Titanic, we really don’t know, there is no record of that. But it is very curious how the story of the mummy of the sarcophagus lid in the British Museum That forced the members of the museum until the year 95 to have a poster explaining this story and asking them not to get too close to the mummy, until then that story was maintained,” Javier continues explaining.
Apparently, according to Carmen Porter, the story of the titanic mummy It begins to be told by a passenger who was traveling on the Titanic and who visited the british museum being shocked by the story of the unlucky mummy, later, several passengers they later tell the story to the press when they are already in New York because They believed that this mummy was actually traveling on the Titanic, so the story got bigger and people ended up believing it.
