Is there any evidence that the tomb was empty?

Yes - and it's accepted by a majority of scholars who study the question, not only believers. Several converging lines of evidence point to a genuinely empty tomb.

First, independent attestation. Matthew and Luke draw on Mark, so the four gospels are not four wholly separate witnesses - but Mark, John, and the early creed Paul cites ("he was buried... he was raised") give us at least two or three genuinely independent streams reporting the same core fact. Converging independent streams are exactly what historians look for.

Second, the witnesses were women. In first-century Jewish and Roman culture, a woman's testimony carried little legal weight - so no one fabricating a story to persuade that culture would have chosen women as the first to find the tomb. The detail survives precisely because it was true and too well known to change. Historians call this the criterion of embarrassment.

Third, and most striking, Jesus's opponents conceded it. The earliest Jewish response, recorded in Matthew 28 and echoed by later writers, was that the disciples stole the body. That accusation only makes sense if the tomb was in fact empty - the debate was never "is the body still there?" but "what happened to it?"

Fourth, the Jerusalem factor: the disciples began preaching the resurrection in the very city where Jesus had been buried, weeks after the burial. If the tomb still held a body, the authorities needed only to produce it to end the movement instantly. They never did.

The burial itself is also hard to explain as invention: Jesus was laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, a named member of the Sanhedrin - the very council that had condemned Jesus. Inventing a sympathetic burial by a member of the hostile court is not what a fabricated story does.

An honest limit: an empty tomb by itself doesn't prove a resurrection - it proves the body was gone, which needs explaining. But combined with the eyewitness appearances and the transformation of the disciples, the empty tomb is a stubborn historical fact that the alternative theories struggle to account for.