Egypt, 1922. It was meant to be a world sensation: the famous Egyptologist Sir Howard Carlton opens an unknown pharaoh's tomb. Illustrious guests have traveled to witness the event. But as Carlton enters the burial chamber, he collapses to the ground seconds later. His last words: The Curse of the Pharaoh. It quickly becomes known that on the night before Carlton's death, the jackal-headed god of the dead, Anubis, was lurking around his tent. But was it really the curse that took the researcher away?.