Could you help me with the use of prepositions and particles? The Curse of Tutankhamun Most people scoff at the idea of curses coming true, but the events that followed the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 may make them think twice before laughing. The story of the curse began when the last man climbed out of the tomb. It is said that a sudden sandstorm blew up and that the men in the party saw a hawk, the ancient royal symbol of Egypt, fly overhead. Local Egyptians took this to mean that the spirit of the dead king had left his tomb, cursing those who had opened it. Five months later, the man who financed the expedition, Lord Carnarvon, was bitten on the cheek by a mosquito. Normally nothing too serious! But the bite became infected and Carnarvon caught pneumonia and died in an Egyptian hospital. At the precise moment of his death all the lights in Cairo went out and thousands of miles away at the Carnarvon mansion in Hampshire, England, his dog began to howl – and died during the night. Doctors who examined the mummified body of Tutankhamun reported that he had a small depression on his cheek, just like a mosquito bite, in exactly the same spot where Carnarvon had been bitten. Many people who visited the tomb also died under strange circumstances. Lord Carnarvon’s half-brother died of a burst appendix. An Egyptian prince whose family claimed descent from the pharaohs was murdered in London and his brother commited suicide. An American railway tycoon caught a cold while at the tomb and died of pneumonia. The man who helped Howard Carter to catalogue the items found inside the tomb commited suicide, and a few months later his father jumped to his death from the balcony of his London flat. There was an alabaster vase from the tomb in the room that he jumped from. In 1966 the governement of Egypt agreed to lend the treasures to France for an important exhibition. The Director of Antiquities fought against the decision, because he had dreamed that he would die if he allowed the treasures to go out of Egypt. When he left the last meeting, still trying to make the authorities change their minds, he was knocked down by a car and died two days later. And Howard Carter who was the first man into the tomb? He died of natural causes in 1939.