When the ‘tomb of Tin Hinan’ was found and opened by Byron Khun de Prorok and the French Army in 1925, the discovery received much less publicity than other ancient finds. This may have been as Prorok was considered the “original tomb raider” of his time, and not well respected by the scientific community.     In 1920s, Byron Khun De Prorok (b. 1896) was director of archeological excavations in Carthage. Smithsonian/Wikimedia ‘Count’ Byron Khun de Prorok was a Polish-American amateur archaeologist who was interested in ancient legends. With the support of the French, who were the colonial masters of much of West Africa, de Prorok was able to launch an expedition into the Saharan desert. At Abalessa in the Hoggar region of southern Algeria, de Prorok discovered a monumental tomb. This circular structure, which was located on a hill overlooking a dried river bed, or