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Every single person who talks about ‘haha Egyptian curses’ as if they were some supernatural beings (or, possibly, aliens) and not just black people who were good at building owes me $10

*ding ding ding* Spooky PoC culture trope for $500 Alex

#The Romans are somehow never spooky and those guys did shit to chickens that makes the Egyptians look tame 

like seriously can we get some “I’m scared of the Romans” posts up in here because if ever there were a group of bastards who WOULD put a curse on anything that couldn’t be nailed down…

I was once present when a lead curse tablet was excavated and it was some dude cursing whomever had stolen his favourite cloak. He’d stabbed the lead it many times.

Then there was an addendum that said that he revoked the curse because no one stole it, it was his mother who’d taken it for washing. 

#the romans are a riot and y’all should fear them

#the Egyptians won’t even leave Egypt to get you

#they’re lazy af

and also incredibly practical so WAY less likely to curse you and leave that up to whatever god/karma/crazy random happenstance and far MORE likely to just whack you over the head with a bowl.

I work in a museum featuring the Roman Baths from when the Romans first landed in England in 43 AD and we’ve found lead curses where someone’s stolen their clothes from the apodyterium (changing room) and they hope Sulis Minerva pulls their brains out through their ears.

Romans are dramatic little shits that get upset over the slightest inconvenience.

I looked through the comments, and this one was gold.

Fear the Romans not the Egyptians, kids. FEAR THEM

Well, the single largest collection of ancient magic we found came from Alexandria. But it was also written in Latin, Greek and Coptic, which doesn’t exactly let the Romans off the hook there,

I think the idea of an Egyptian curse has very little do with actual archaeology unfortunately. Partly I think the idea comes from that Ancient Egyptian society is really old and at that time not a lot was known about it, thus making it very mysterious. Secondly I believe most of the people who who where archaeologist in Egypt when the time the curse idea was formed where white British Christians, meaning they where very superstitious. And the bible paints a lot of the sections involving Egypt as a battle between the Hebrew god and the Egyptian gods. Meaning that Egyptian gods taken to be real. Then there is the fact that they mummified their dead, for religious reasons, spooky. And top it all off with Death on the Nile written by Agatha Christie and the original Mummy movie based on those concepts and you have a curse sensation.

I think the reason that the Romans got glossed over as curse nuts is because we knew to much about their society going in and their gods where never taken seriously as a real threat to Christians.

Anyway if people can stop ‘splaining Egypt to me, an Egyptologist, on this post that would be great.

We literally fucking know why that was the POINT. OF. THE. POST.

*DING DING DING* 

Egyptologists already know ‘spoopy curses in Ancient Egypt’* is a racist trope please stop explaining it to us

*aside from actual Egyptian curses, which mainly just want you to drown in the Nile or get eaten by a crocodile if you rob a tomb

Also, it’s got nothing to do with Christianity! The populist idea of ‘curses’ in Ancient Egypt came about around 1922 after Howard Carter gave exclusive publishing rights on the tomb of Tutankhamun to The Times, which meant all other papers had to scramble for something to publish. When Carnarvon died of an infected bite, they all screamed ‘CUUUUURRRRSSSEEE’ and that’s how we get to everyone thinking this.