2023-05-11 21:01:00
After entering an Egyptian tomb that had not been opened for nearly 600 years, researcher and filmmaker Ramy Romany said he suffered an illness that nearly led to his death. The mysterious illness, as he recounted on The Jordan Harbinger Show podcast, has yet to be explained — swinging suspicions of a curse cast by the pharaohs or a strange fungus.
Among the symptoms, Romany said she had coughing up blood, having hallucinations, in addition to fevers in the range of 42ºC. It all happened during the recording of the Discovery Channel show Mummies Unwrapped in 2019. The team worked on an episode about remains believed to be of a biblical figure.
“We unlock the gate [do túmulo], and the villagers stepped aside to make sure there were no snakes or pests. Not believing in curses, we just went down the stairs. The tomb was infinite. We continued down. It was quite dusty. And I was breathing it all in,” said the researcher.
Romany was given antibiotics after suspicions he was bitten by snakes or bats from inside the tomb. But remember the story of Lord Carnarvon, who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and ended up infected with the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus. Romany, luckily, didn’t die, and recovered in about four days — though she considered the experience the closest she’s come to death.
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