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AnswerThe great Pyramids (of Egypt assuming) have been robbed of their contents on a continuing basis by both thieves and archaeologists since the day when their inhabitants' were first entombed. That having been said, the late 19th century, carrying into the early 20th, was a good time to loot Egyptian pyramids and graves, and a bad time to be one of those dead!

The contents of the Egyptian temples, tombs and pyramids were lay waste and plundered by the Muslims in 642 AD and for generations afterward. The riches were gone centuries before modern archaeologists began exploring the desert. There have been a few discoveries that were missed by the Muslim raiders but only a few.

They were also looted on a large scale by the Egyptians themselves.

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