I read once that there are estimated to be about 500,000 potential archaeological sites in Iraq; and that in the past 150 years, we have excavated 25,000 of them.
At this rate, we’ll never get to them all, so as far as I’m concerned, I don’t care if thieves grab the stuff, so long as it is made public later (and I don’t care how).
Lol.
LOL!