LOST AND FOUND...AGAIN!

Remember that time when I lost the Temple of Jordania* and I started freaking out, searching high and low and in the middle only to find it stuffed down under the seat of the couch?

No?....Okay, just trying to create an analogy.
Here’s the story.

Once upon a time, in a mystical land of sand and spice, a young and handsome**
Swedish Egyptologist named Karl Piehl discovered a tomb.

On his hands and knees
Karl painstakingly removed grain after grain of sand using only a toothbrush and
a dustpan*** from an excavation site at the city of Luxor, to uncover beautiful
tomb.

Karl soon realised that it was not just any old tomb; no
he had found the tomb belonging to deputy seal bearer of Tuthmosis
III.

“WHOOPIE!” said Karl.****
But Karl was so excited about his discovery that whilst doing his victory dance he didn’t even notice the tomb sink beneath the golden sands, to be lost to all for over a century.

But fear not my beautiful people, the tomb has been rediscovered! Yes, a Belgium team has rediscovered the tomb and all is right again! Unfortunately, the inscriptions on the walls of the tomb have been damaged, leading archaeologists to believe that the tomb has been plundered, probably sometime during the early 19th century.

Now, I’d like to think that on occasion I do raise some kind of valid, if not quirky point about archaeology and the state of the world. With that in mind, I ask you, oh humble readers, HOW DO YOU LOSE A TOMB?!

Car keys, bobby pins and loose change I can understand, but a tomb?! That’s a pretty big target. Do I smell a conspiracy here?

Please enlighten me.

*Figment of my imagination.
**I don’t know if Karl was indeed young or handsome…well obviously he was young at one stage (or was he? [Insert dramatic music here]), but I don’t know about the handsome part. But I just thought I’d put in a good word.
***Probably used more than just a toothbrush and dustpan.
****Probably didn’t say this at all.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090301/science/science_egypt_tomb_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090301/sc_nm/us_archaeology_egypt_tomb;_ylt=AmYptKSqZBAdoUVnurApOnEhANEA