An Egyptologist has claim he suffered a mystery unwellness that left him hallucinate and coughing up profligate after opening an Ancient Egyptian tomb .
Filmmaker and Egyptologist Ramy Romany told The Jordan Harbinger Show he had become ill after opening up a grave for the Discovery Channel TV showMummies Unwrappedin 2019 .
" While we were shootingMummies Unwrapped , I came the close to death I ’ve ever been , " he read in an former consultation with theKhaleej Times . The team had been take an sequence about mummified remains , which masses had claimed belonged to a biblical name .
" While we ’re film that , we go into a tomb that had n’t been opened for years . We unlock the doorway and the locals would stay forth first to make trusted there were n’t any Snake or any curses . Not believing in curses , we just went straight through down staircases . The tomb was sempiternal . We keep going down and it ’s quite stale . And I was take a breath it all in . And that day , I was walking back to Cairo and I begin not feeling well .
The next morning , I had fevers so gamy . I ’ve never had that high a fever in my life . I was at 107 ° F [ 42 ° C ] and I get down coughing stemma . They suffer doctors for me . I nigh die . "
According to Romany , the tomb had not been afford for about 600 years . In aninterviewwith Jordan Harbinger , he add that the febrility bring on hallucinations . His doctors placed him on antibiotics , figuring the cause to be bats , snakes , or rubble from inside the tomb .
Romany does not believe in the so - called " swearword " of the Pharaohs , but said that there was a " scientific " truth to it . While the estimate that Ancient Pharaohs placed a curse on all who disturb their slumber is of course trumpery , fungal pathogenshave been encounter inside ancient tombs . Though astudylooked at those who had opened Egyptian tombs and found no suspicious amount of death rate , it has been hypothecate that Lord Carnarvon – supposedly a victim of the " nemesis " – could have been infected with fungous pathogenAspergillusacquired when opening the tomb of Tutankhamun .
Romany lived to tell the tale , though he is still unsure what the illness was in the first place .
" Finally , four days afterward I go back , but it was closemouthed , " he told the Khaleej Times . " Whether it was a mummy whammy or not , something in that tomb puzzle me . "
[ H / T : Unilad ]
