Did ancient egyptians know about the phenomenon of rotting, so they purposely buried their pharaons with plenty of food, so it would rot and infest the air with spores, and if ever someone breaks in, those fungi spores would kill the intruder?

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kore_nametooshort

Just to clear up a misconception with this post, no one who entered King Tutankhamen's tomb died from fungal spores.

The first person to die since opening the tomb was the Earl of Carnarvon who died about 5 months later from an infected mosquito bite.

There was a huge media frenzy at the time speculating about the curse of the mummy, but it was all overblown hyperbole.