The curse of King Casimir IV of Poland: 12 researchers opened his tomb, 10 dying within a few days

What truth is there in the curses of the tombs of kings? Sometimes they are true. At least the results.

Casimir IV Jagiellon was king of poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. He passed away in 1492. Almost 500 years later, in 1973, 12 archaeologists opened his tomb. 10 of them died within a few days. What happened?

Decades earlier, in 1922, something similar happened at the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Several people who were in the opening of the grave or in the autopsy to the mummy, died within a few days or weeks. The press, as usual, was quick to talk about the Curse of the Mummy, which we have seen in so many movies and video games.

What’s behind these”curses” of the tombs of the kings?

He King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland he reigned between the years 1447 and 1492. His main merit was annex Prussiawith territories that today include Lithuania and northern Germany.

The death of King Casimir IV

According to the web grungy, Casimir IV Jagiellon died on June 7, 1492, of unknown causes. He was 64 years old.

It was a hot day, so they covered him with cloth and resin, and put him in a wooden coffin. Later he was buried in the Cathedral of Krakow, in Poland. This is his grave:

500 years passed, until a group of researchers asked the Bishop of Krakow, who would later become Pope John Paul II, for permission to open the grave with the intention of restoring it.

The bishop granted it, and on April 13, 1973, 12 archaeologists and workers they opened the grave of the King Casimir IV Jagiellon. Indeed, the remains were very deteriorated, due to the use of resin, fabrics, and a wooden coffin.

The chronicles say that, at the time of the opening, the researchers they joked about the curse of Tutankhamen. Unfortunately, the curse came true.

Within a few days, 4 of those researchers died. A few weeks later another 6. In total, 10 of the 12 archaeologists died shortly after.

What had happened? An investigation determined that the grave and the coffin itself had high concentrations of Aspergillus flavusa fungus that is transmitted through the air and It is mortal in weakened immune systems.

Did the same thing happen with the curse of tutankhamen? It is a different case because some of those deaths were due to accidents or heart attacks, something that experts dismiss as common at that time. Others did it for infectionswhich were also deadly in the 1920s, because antibiotics did not yet exist.

A I study German of 1999 determined that all egyptian mummies examined had some kind of fungus spore They are dangerous for people with weakened immune systems.

The curse of the King Casimir IV of Polandor of tutankhamen? Science tells us that the cause was the fungus that grow between the humidity and the rottenness of the coffins, and that can be deadly in people with weakened immune system by age, or other disease.