Many strange stories have been told about the Pyramids in Egypt, but perhaps the strangest is about the coffin of an Egyptian priestess Legend has it that a young Englishman who was on vacation in Egypt bought her coffin in the 1890s. After buying the coffin, he was seen walking toward the desert He never returned. Local people began to talk about "The Curse of the Mummy The coffin was sent to England and was bought by a London businessman who had heard the story of There are no such things as curses. The young man can't have just disappeared. He Englishman. young still be in the desert somewhere, he said However, when three members of the businessman's family were injured a car accident and his house his mind "The coffin must be cursed. I wish I had never bought it," he said, and caught on fire then he arranged for the coffin to be sent to the British Museum On the morning of the delivery, one of the two workers carrying the coffin fell and broke his leg The other worker died two days later. Manyvisitors to the museum had very bad luck after visiting the coffin Finally, the coffin was locked in a room in the basement of the muscum until it could be sold. Within a week one of the workers who had carried the coffin 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 with him archaeologist bought the coffin and arranged to take it back to New York An still believe in curses. This is the 20th century!" he said people 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