Photo: Reuters/Luke Baker
Detail of looters’ pits amid house foundations at Umma in March, 2004 http://www.athenapub.com/15-intro-looting.htm
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Photo: Screenshot of Google Earth, coordinates courtesy of Nathan Craig
Satellite photo that shows holes dug by looters to reach ancient tombs in the Huara Valley, Peru. http://www.thingsyoucanttakeback.com/2011/03/looting-from-space.html
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Photo: Nathan Benn
Photograph of grave robbers or tomb raiders (huacero) looting pre-Hispanic graves for artifacts between Sipan and Chicalayo in the Lambayeque Valley of Northern Peru. The men and boys (huaceros) dig an Inca huaca and find Inca, Chimu and Moche culture artifacts, mostly beads and pottery shards. They use screen frames to sift the soil and clay around the tombs for small objects. They find many beads made of seashells. Archeology and protection of archeological sites is complicated by uncontrolled looters. Photograph by Nathan Benn taken March 29, 1989. http://www.mocheperuimages.com/stock_photography_images/looting-looter-huacero-peru-precolumbian-antiquities/
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Photo: Steven Viney
Garbage dumped in a looted archaeological site at Abu Sir. http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/garbage-dumping-and-archaeological-looting-abu-sir-alarm-residents
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Photo: UNESCO/C. Jacques
A headless relief at the Banteay Chmar Temple. http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36522&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Photo: Holly Pickett, The New York Times
Hundreds of illegal digging sites dot the landscape at the ancient site of Dubrum, a Sumerian city, buried near the village of Dhahir in southern Iraq. Thousands of archaeological sites have been left unprotected by an underfunded antiquities police force that only has 106 officers. http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/06/looters_stealing_from_iraqs_un.html
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Photo: Nathan Craig
Mummified child’s arm, looter’s foot prints and urine http://huaqueando.blogspot.com/
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Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Iraqi National Museum Deputy Director Mushin Hasan holds his head in his hands as he sits on destroyed artifacts April 13, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0305/pcox.html
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Photo: UC Berkeley Excavations at El-Hibeh
Before and After: Excavated area at El-Hibeh in 2009 (top) and in 2011 (bottom) following looting. http://globalheritagenetwork.ning.com/profiles/blogs/extensive-looting-at-el-hibeh-egypt
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Photo: Andrew Burke
Looted temple at Bakan. http://archives.icom.museum/redlist/cambodia/en/index.htm
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