
Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know
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How Many Different Tombs Have Been Ransacked?
The valley of the kings has got a very interesting history. The pharaohs didn't guard it as well as it should have been guarded. People started to steal from the royal tombs. And so what happened eventually is that the priests, the priests of amon, opened up the royalTombs and emptied them. They took out all the grave goods and all the pharaohs. But they also stripped off thepharaohs - but not by archaeologists or even modern thieves. Because we now have these royal bodies, but they have already been stripped. It was probably because if you took all the grave Goods away from the ph Pharaohs, people would no longer be mted to
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