Case file · Folklore / legend
Napoleon's night in the King's Chamber
A popular story says Napoleon asked to be left alone in the Great Pyramid's King's Chamber during the 1798 campaign and came out pale and shaken, refusing ever to say what he had seen.
1798 CE · 29.98, 31.13 · status: legend
The sceptical view
No account by Napoleon or his staff mentions it. Bourrienne's memoirs even say he never entered the pyramid. It seems to be a 20th-century invention.