Later movies such as The Mummy’s Tomb and The Mummy’s Curse portrayed mummies as the heavily-bandaged, mute beings they’re known as today. But it was Boris Karloff’s portrayal of a mummy in the 1932 movie, The Mummy, that made mummies mainstream monsters. ![]() ![]() Mummies became more than religious symbols of the ancient world in the early 20th century with the debut of Bram Stoker’s novel, The Jewel of the Seven Stars, which featured them as supernatural villains. Still, when several people involved in his expedition died early of unnatural causes, the story was sensationalized by the media-even though the so-called curse spared Carter’s life. ![]() ![]() This superstition didn’t rattle Carter, however, nor stop him from exhuming Tut’s tomb. According to folklore, disturbing a mummy’s tomb leads to death.
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