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Even at the outset, Carter and his financier, Lord Carnarvon, knew that the tomb had been compromised, because of a re-plastered and sealed hole in the outer doorway (not on the fifth shrine). 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.
The Unbroken Seal On King Tutankhamun’s Tomb, After 3300 Year
Even at the outset, Carter and his financier, Lord Carnarvon, knew that the tomb had been compromised, because of a re-plastered and sealed hole in the outer doorway (not on the fifth shrine). 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.