The Curse of the Princess of Amen-Ra

Put the verbs from the box into the Past Simple Passive to complete the story

The Princess of Amen-Ra lived some 1,500 years B.C. When she died she

_________ in a wooden coffin and ________ deep on the banks of the Nile. In the

late 1890s, four rich Englishmen visiting the excavation at Luxor ____________ to buy

the beautiful mummy case containing the remains of the Princess. They drew lots and

the one who won bought the coffin at a high price and had it taken to his hotel.

Sometime later he _________ walking towards the desert from where he never

returned. The next day one of the remaining men ___________, the third man upon

returning to England found that his entire savings ___________, while the fourth

person from the group suffered a severe illness and lost his job. But this was not the

end of the misfortunes.

After the coffin reached England it ____________ by a London businessman

whose family members ______________ in a road accident, so that the coffin ____

soon __________ to the British Museum. This is where other misfortunes continued.

By now the newspapers had heard of the cursed mummy. A journalist

photographer took a picture of the mummy case and when he developed it a painting on

the coffin was a horrifying human face. The photographer went home and shot himself.

Soon afterwards the museum sold the mummy to an American archaeologist. In April

1912 the new owner escorted the mummy aboard a sparkling new liner about to make its

maiden voyage to New York. On the night of April 14

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the Princess of Amen-Ra

accompanied 1,500 passengers to their deaths at the bottom of the Atlantic. The name

of the ship was the Titanic.

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