Finally, the coffin was locked in a room in the basement of the museum until it could be sold. Within a week one of the workers who had carried the coofin was seriously ill, and the other one was found dead at his desk. In the decade that the coffin was in England, twenty people had either been injured, become ill or died. Many people wished someone would take the coffin away. An American archaeologist bought the coffin and arranged to take it back to New York with him. "Surely people people can't still believe in curses. This is the 20th century!" he said. In April 1912 the archaeologist and the coffin boarded a brand new luxury ship on its very first voyage to New York. The name of the ship was Titanic.