Curse of the pharaohs the 19th century, but they multiplied after Howard Carter<nowiki>'s discovery of the </nowiki>Tomb of Tutankhamun. Despite popular misconceptions, no curse was actually found inscribed in the Pharaoh's tomb. The evidence for curses relating to King Tutankhamun is considered to be so meager that Donald B. Redford viewed it as "unadulterated clap trap". Curses relating to tombs are extremely rare, possibly because the idea of such desecration was unthinkable and even dangerous to record in writing. They most frequently occur in private tombs of the Old Kingdom era. The tomb of Ankhtifi (9–10th dynasty) contains the warning: "any ruler who... shall
Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun exhibition until May 2009. The tour continued to other U.S. cities. After Dallas the exhibition moved to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, to be followed by the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York City. This exhibition, featuring completely different artifacts to those in "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs", first ran at the Ethnological Museum in Vienna from March 9 to September 28, 2008 under the title "Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs". It featured a further 140 treasures from the Valley of the Kings including objects from the tomb of King Tut. The