{"id":4673,"date":"2025-05-23T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2025\/05\/23\/dinners-pharaohs-and-curses\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:05:27","slug":"dinners-pharaohs-and-curses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2025\/05\/23\/dinners-pharaohs-and-curses\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinners, Pharaohs and Curses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]Some agencies allow you to go dine to the most unthinkable places: into space, to the bottom of the ocean, to the top of a sequoia&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd they all promise a <em>unique<\/em> experience.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I think these gentlemen had one of the most unique and unrepeatable experiences you will ever see: a dinner inside the tomb of Pharaoh <em>Ramses XI<\/em>, in the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valley_of_the_Kings\"><strong>Valley of the Kings.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see in the pic the famous archaeologist <em>Howard Carter<\/em> (seated at the head of the table) and his team.<br \/>\nThe servants are Egyptian (in the pure colonial spirit of the time&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>The one who took the photo was <em>Lord Carnarvon<\/em>, the financier of the enterprise.<br \/>\nHe was also the one who, with his premature passing just a few months after this singular dinner, contributed (against his will) to the birth of the legend of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curse_of_the_pharaohs\"><em>Curse of the Pharaohs<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that a few hours later, Carnarvon and Carter entered <em>Tutankhamun<\/em>\u2019s Burial chamber for the first time.<br \/>\nI have found nothing to prove (or disprove) this conjecture.<\/p>\n<p>Nor anything that talks about what equipment was used to cook it.<br \/>\nMaybe those were the ones that were cursed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, do you know which machines I am sure do not bring any bad luck?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/contatti\/?lang=en\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/a> me and I will tell you![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]Some agencies allow you to go dine to the most unthinkable places: into space, to the bottom of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}