Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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How the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings - probably the richest burials in history - came to be pillaged by their own guardians. My interview with Chris Naunton about the Valley: youtu.be/DCpo5xwihMU
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Chapters
0:00 Finding the Royal Cache
2:04 The Valley of the Kings
2:55 The tombs of the pharaohs
4:10 Peregrine Pendants
5:14 Tomb robbers
6:13 Questioning thieves
7:07 Piankh and Butehamun
8:17 Establishing the mummy caches
9:13 Relics