The second way is less obvious: the absence of physical evidence at the locations that have been searched means that some of the specific location claims that have circulated are either wrong or incomplete.

If someone identifies a specific location confidently, says the burial is there, and the location is examined without finding confirming evidence, that claim is not supported.

The track record of confident location claims followed by the absence of confirming physical evidence has repeated enough times that it has become part of the story itself: the mystery persists not because no one has looked, but because looking has not produced the answer.

This could mean several things: