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King Tut's Tomb Raid
Tombs are weird they have ventaltion shafts and then the have the main tomb is pretty big but before you get to that tomb you have to go through a lot of traps and sometimes tomb raiders sometimes die so tomb raiders usually go through the ventilation shafts and rob the tombs so most tombs when found today are empty and only one tomb has been found and that tomb is king Tut's tomb

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