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Though it's undoubtedly a fabulous find my heart broke when I read this sentence "... most of the inscriptions on the walls of the tomb were damaged, a sign that the place had probably been robbed in the early 19th century"

I know what you mean, Akhnaton. It's disgraceful.

I just don't understand what makes people do things like that. It makes me mad.

It's gut-wrenching to hear or see acts of vandalism being carried out so brazenly on ancient monuments. What nature and history protected for centuries or millenia cannot be cared for by man for even a decade. How strange

They probably needed the money (or just possibly thought they items were better off being appreciated in a collect rather than lying around in the desert where only a handful of people would appreciate them in a decade.