Italy recovers Etruscan artefacts dug up by 'amateurish' tomb raiders

Straits Times ^ | November 19, 2024 | Reuters

[SunkenCiv]

Right back at you — put a sock in it.

The acronym is quite widely used, your feigned ignorance notwithstanding, and the full phrase contains a impermissable word.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) They loved life.

[No name given]

At all.

[No name given]

Very.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Grave robbing should be left to professionals. This discovery is part of a national treasure, and valuable historical info was likely destroyed.

[Democrat = party of treason]

“on their land” seems to me to be the real crux here. Seems to me that if they dug it up ON THEIR LAND, it is theirs...

[aMorePerfectUnion]

We prefer our grave robbers to have PhDs

[SunkenCiv]

Almost right -- Graverobbing is not archaeology, and archaeology is not graverobbing. The canard is an old one and has been revived of late. Some years ago, a megalith that had been preserved in situ in a public park, I think in Spain, was vandalized, and purported supporters of the vandals popped up.

• Illegal excavation reveals an important discovery [08/10/2010]
• Road built over 3000-year-old tumulus in eastern Turkey [07/27/2010]
• "King's" villas cause outrage [Caria, in modern Turkey] [05/17/2008]

[SunkenCiv]

Plundering and selling antiquities is just a sign of budding sociopathy. In Italy and elsewhere (typically in places with deep cultural legacies) it's also illegal.

[Ge0ffrey]

On their land?

[Ge0ffrey]

On their land? Italy should compensate them handsomely.

[SunkenCiv]

“Another Etruscan tomb, belonging to the same “Pulfna” family, was found in Citta della Pieve in 2015. At the time, the farmer who made the discovery reported it to authorities and got about 100,000 euros ($105,000) as a reward.”

It’s right in the excerpt.

[Adder]

They were a people of few words...

[Carry_Okie]

The first time I was in Holland, a Dutchman at a bar joked about how silly Americans would come to Amsterdam and rebuild old buildings.

I told him, "We don't have any "old."

[redfreedom]

Most acronyms are typically can be typically Googled. Another observation is that secret name calling over implied criticism is a lefty thing. I appears you are upset Harris did not win, sorry for your loss.