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> a few items had been looted from it in the short period of time between its discovery and closure.

I mean, wth? It’s 2022 and people are still looting this stuff? There wasn’t any gold found in the cave, so the value of what is taken is lost when it is removed from its context.

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Theft is alive and well all across the planet.

I forecast this trend will continue well into 2023.

Bold claim!

What do you mean "still"? Stealing is not something that depends on the year we are in.

This kind of looting goes either to collectors (money) or to personal trophies in private houses. All things that human beings like to have from millenia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history

> There wasn’t any gold found in the cave

Well, maybe not anymore it wasn't?

People like to collect antiquities.

"so the value of what is taken is lost when it is removed from its context."

You can still sell it to collectors. They know the context.

And about the why people still do this in 2022? Probably because not everyone is wealthy or interested in accurate history.

They mean the context of where it was in the burial chamber. What was it collocated with.

I meant the context of the burial chamber. For a private collector that might be enough.

(and regarding the downvotes above: I am interested in history)

Sure, but it destroys all historical and archeological value.

Sure, but where did I say that I approve that? I just explained the motivation of people who do not care about that. And for some rich collectors it is enough, to have old objects of historic value.

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