The Egyptians were preoccupied with the cult of the dead. ... The belief in the mummy's curse was rekindled when Lord Carnarvon, patron of Howard Carter's archaeological excavations, died five months after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. He died of blood poisoning following a mosquito bite that became infected.

What happened when Lord Carnarvon died?

On 19 March 1923, Carnarvon suffered a severe mosquito bite which became infected by a razor cut. On 5 April, he died in the Continental-Savoy Hotel in Cairo caused, according to contemporaneous reports, by blood poisoning progressing to pneumonia.

When did Carnarvon die?

—died April 5, 1923, Cairo), British Egyptologist who was the patron and associate of archaeologist Howard Carter in the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Carnarvon was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge.