Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the supposed Curse of Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb.

The ‘boy king’ who ruled what is now Egypt more than 3,000 years ago was worshipped as a God – and was just 18 or 19 years old when he died. His tomb, in the Valley of the Kings, was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter and his financial backer Lord Carnarvon in 1922.

However, according to legend, the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs and the mummified remains they contain are protected by