ACCORDING to legend, eight people met an unfortunate demise after ignoring the curse that was written on the tomb of Tutankhamun and opened it in 1923. Verdict:FALSEThere was (and is) no curse inscribed on Tutakhamun's tomb. Most of the people who were present went on to live normal lives. David Vernon in Skeptical – a Handbook of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, ed. Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989,3. http://www.touregypt.net/ featurestories/curse.htm