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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 01:05 PM
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Is King Tut's tomb the biggest treasure find of all the ancient Egyptian's tombs?
Has there been anything similar to the Tut find, in regards to the amount of treasures discovered? Or were the ancient tombs pretty much looted long ago?









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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 01:09 PM
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1. The haul from Tut's tomb was pretty poor, comparatively speaking.
The burial treasures of Ramses II and many more important Pharoah's than Tut are believed to have been much more extensive. But they were all looted thousands of years ago. We'll never know how rich those tombs might have been.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 02:05 PM
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2. (non-Egyptian) Alexander the Great's daddy's tomb stuff was fairly blindingly blingy n/t
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 05:37 PM
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3. I did some Googling. Turns out the tomb belonged to Alexander's half brother.
Edited on Thu Jan-15-09 05:38 PM by brentspeak
But they think that some of the treasures in that tomb may actually belonged to Alexander himself:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080423-alexander-great.html
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