Thutmose II’s tomb found empty

Pharaoh Thutmose II’s tomb was found empty, likely raided long ago, Egyptologist Dr. Chris Naunton says. #Egypt

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00:00Actually there's one question I wanted to ask and you just touched on it there.

00:04The tomb was completely empty. You know obviously we've seen these amazing

00:10artefacts in a lot of the other tombs. Why was this?

00:14Well in fact they are almost always found more or less empty. We know that

00:20these tombs which were stuffed full of extremely valuable things were very

00:25often robbed and where we have the evidence for it we can see that this

00:28often happened a very short space of time after the the kings even were

00:33buried. So even in the case of the tomb of Tutankhamun we know that that was

00:36robbed at least twice within a matter of months of the king being being buried

00:40there and in most cases those tombs are comprehensively ransacked. It's actually

00:45just the one or two very celebrated examples like the tomb of Tutankhamun

00:50which was found substantially intact that have kind of clouded our judgment.

00:54You know it makes us feel as though that's that's how it should be when most

00:58of them in fact are found in this condition empty more or less.