Was it an ancient order of tomb-defenders out to exact revenge? Yeah, might totally have been. Either way, don't plunder a tomb if you're not ready to go head-to-head with some deadly-ass snakes.
Ancient Egyptian engineers would cover the tomb floors with hematite powder, a sharp metallic dust designed to cause a slow and painful death to those who inhaled enough of it. And that stuff has quite the shelf life: When Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian real-life Indiana Jones, entered the Bahariya Oasis tomb in , his team found the sarcophagus booby trapped with 8 inches of the stuff, forcing them to abandon their expedition until they could come back with hazmat suits and respirators.
One particularly nasty trap, common to some pyramids, were razor-sharp invisible wires, hung exaaaaaactly at neck-level. Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang, famous above all else for the Terra cotta army he was buried with, also commissioned a series of massive rivers and lakes from mercury. There are even stories of pharaohs unceremoniously having the mummy of their predecessor dumped out of their sarcophagus so that even that container could be reused.
This all was particularly the case in times of hardship when Egyptian nobility would think nothing of ransacking the final resting place of a beloved family member or ancestor because, well, technically, in their view it was their stuff sitting there. A perk of being the ones who set the rules, this tomb raiding practise by nobility was tolerated in the ancient Egyptian world.
Punishments for raiding a tomb ranged from brutal death to public flogging, depending on how important the crypt that was desecrated was and the value of the items stolen. In regards to the kind of death penalty meted out to thieves, it was common practise to burn them alive. The problem with all these punishments is that it would seem it was rather easy to get out of getting into any trouble at all. For example, consider this account by one 11th century BCE tomb raider, Amenpanufer, on both his method of tomb raiding and how he got out of trouble, even when caught:.
We went to rob the tombs as is our usual habit and we found the pyramid tomb of King Sobekemsaf, this tomb being unlike the pyramids and tombs of the nobles which we usually rob. We took our copper tools and forced a way into the pyramid of this king through its innermost part.
We located the underground chambers and, taking lighted candles in our hands, went down. We found the god lying at the back of his burial place.
And we found the burial place of Queen Nubkhaas, his consort, beside him, it being protected and guarded by plaster and covered with rubble. We opened their sarcophagi and their coffins, and found the noble mummy of the king equipped with a sword.
There were a large number of amulets and jewels of gold on his neck and he wore a headpiece of gold. The noble mummy of the king was completely covered in gold and his coffins were decorated with gold and with silver inside and out and inlaid with precious stones. Microsoft uses AI to digitally recreate the site of the That's roar-some!
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