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Yes, Mary Magdalene visited the tomb of Jesus twice on the Sunday after his death:
- First visit
Mary and other women arrived at the tomb to anoint Jesus' body with spices, but found the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. They saw an angel who told them that Jesus had risen and to tell the disciples. Mary ran to tell Peter and John, who also went to the tomb. They saw the empty grave clothes, but didn't see Jesus or the angels.
- Second visit
Mary returned to the tomb alone and weeping. Two angels appeared and spoke to her, and she turned to see Jesus, but didn't recognize him. Jesus revealed himself to her, and sent her to tell the disciples that he had risen.
And also what happened after the first visist when they went back to tell the Apostles...
(Luke 24:10-11) "It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. {11} And
their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not."
They where mocked.. So maybe they again returned a second time to confirm to themselves, that they where not hallucinating..
In the end to get the apostle Peter to come and look they had to report that the body of Jesus had been stolen..
(John 20:2) "Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them,
They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him."
This did the trick and got Peter to come running to the tomb so he could see the situation for himself..