I've been digging again. I saw a programme about King Tut's Curse. They were trying to find how it 'became' a curse. It was journalists. Coz one paper got the main story of the find, the other decided to come up with the curse idea. But I digress. One of those who died of the 'curse' used to literally lick the paint etc, to see if it was salty and so on. Turns out that the colour he was licking was crushed up orpiment, and it had arsenic in it's makeup. And because of the prolonged exposure of the dust etc...... And they still have the stone, which is stated as 'ok' as long as you're not around it too long, on GC.
