Grave concerns- where was Jesus for three days?
One of the greatest archeological discoveries of all time was made in 1922 when Howard Carter located the 2000-year-old, undisturbed tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. On the brow of King Tut’s burial mask was an engraving of a cobra whose task was to defend the Pharaoh’s spirit for eternity. Superstitious people feared it was bad luck to disturb the dead, and they took the cobra as a warning. This omen was ignored by the excavators until hours after the discovery when Carter’s pet canary was killed and eaten by a live cobra. Instantly rumors began to emerge that the tomb was cursed. The media gleefully lapped this up. And novelist Marie Corelli stirred the journalistic pot by declaring publicly that there would be dire consequences for disturbing Tut’s rest. The watching world waited eagerly for any sign of “dire consequences.” Sure enough, less than two weeks later one of the lead archeologists, Lord Carnarvon, received a mosquito bite that he nicked while shaving. It became infe