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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 880176, member: 649&quot;]Apparently, the tomb was not actually &quot;intact&quot; when it was found in 1922:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Even at the outset, <a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/carter.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/carter.htm" rel="nofollow">Carter</a> and his financier, <a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/carnarvon.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/carnarvon.htm" rel="nofollow">Lord Carnarvon</a>, knew that the <a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutt.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutt.htm" rel="nofollow">tomb</a> had been compromised, because of a re-plastered and sealed hole in the outer doorway. Furthermore, once they had entered the tomb, the disorganized state of the material, the damage sustained by several objects and the discernible lack of solid metalwork, bedding, glass, oils and unguents all suggested that the tomb had been robbed during antiquity.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutrobbery.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutrobbery.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutrobbery.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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