100-year-old mystery of deadly 'Pharaoh's Curse' solved, claims new study

Around 100 years after King Tutankhamun's tomb was opened in Egypt, a new study by scientist Ross Fellowes proposed an explanation for the "Pharaoh's Curse". Fellowes said that radiation poisoning from toxic elements in the tomb may have caused the deaths of excavators who opened it in 1922. The elements were deliberately put inside the sealed tomb, the study said.