Did pharaohs ever pillage the tombs of their predecessors?

It's the third ivory statue ever found from the predynastic period. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY HIERAKONPOLIS EXPEDITION. Human Sacrifices, Posthumous Desecration. The man buried in what's known at Hierakonpolis as Tomb 72 was between 17 and 20 years old when he died. read more

"These objects could have washed into the tunnel during floods starting from the 21st dynasty, between 1090 and 945 B.C. Pharaohs from the 21st dynasty onward quarried the tombs of their predecessors for their own royal burials," archaeologist W. Raymond Johnson, director of the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, told National Geographic News. read more