Opening Ancient Egyptian Tomb Leaves Archaeologist Coughing Up Blood And Hallucinating

After walking into an unopened ancient Egyptian tomb, an archaeologist was once left "coughing up blood" and "hallucinating." Legend has it that several of Howard Carter's research crew from the 1920s perished soon after finding and entering Tutankhamun's tomb.

Some say the release of toxic elements caused their deaths, while others claim the tomb is cursed. But what really happened? Here's what we know.

The archaeologist ended up coughing blood and hallucinating

Ramy Romany, an Egyptologist, firmly believes that the 'Curse of the Pharaohs' actually exists. And the Los Angeles-based documentarian with Egyptian ancestry has lived to tell the tale.

Romany was attempting to identify a mummy that he thought might be a historical figure from the Bible, more specifically Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian king, while filming for the Discovery Channel's Mummies Unwrapped.

"Nobody visits there. I went there in an effort to learn more about Akhenaten," said Romany, speaking on The Jordan Harbinger Show.

"I went inside that tomb, and they know all the guards who have been there never opened it. That tomb hasn't actually been opened in about 600 years."

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Romany claims that after tapping on the stone, he and the guards heard all the snakes "rattling and coming out." We enter and begin recording, and as he continued, "I go under that tomb and find things, and I'm breathing really heavy and everything, and there are bats inside, and the smell is so awful, and I left that tomb and I did not feel well."

The intruders had a fever and felt like they were 'about to die'

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"I'm a host on the Discovery Channel, I'm yelling at the camera and being super-excited, and I'm breathing all this crap in."

Romany argued that it was "possibly the Curse of the Mummy mixed in," but podcast presenter Harbinger said: "Literally crap probably, snake and bat crap."

He was "in horrible shape in bed" the next morning. "I had fevers that went up to 107," he claimed. Romany stated: "We had physicians coming in, and I was coughing blood. I believed I was going to die. "I was having hallucinations, and my wife was very, very afraid for me. I don't know how I managed to survive.

"None of the doctors really knew what I had, they put me on a bunch of antibiotics, and I explained to them all where I was, and they said 'Well bats, snakes, dust is not a very good combination for whatever it is, it could be anything we have not seen this combination of symptoms but hopefully these antibiotics work," and they did work.

"I'm alive, and I'm here today," he declared.

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