Sentence examples for illegal dig from inspiring English sources

While Interpol stresses that illegal art trade is difficult to measure, Brand estimates that a full third of the billion-dollar art market is forged, and at least 30% of antiques in galleries and museums were excavated from illegal dig sites.

She also lamented the illegal digging that continues at Baghdad's 12,000 largely unguarded archaeological sites.

Many are still soil-encrusted, a sign of recent illegal digs, according to the Italians.

The illegal digging of archaeological sites has massively increased in Iraq.

In terms of archaeological sites, there were incidents of illegal digging in Babylon, and possibly at Nineveh and Nimrud.

Illegal digging has taken place near the Great Pyramids in Giza and the grand temples of the southern city of Luxor.

The unidentified man was accused of taking part in illegal digs and of black market sales and purchases of antiquities in Greece and abroad.

Museums were permitted to excavate fossils but illegal digging continued too: as Schaal says, people felt it was morally justifiable because it would soon be buried in garbage.

Dr David Gill, reader in Mediterranean archaeology at Swansea University, said that the four antiquities bore soil traces that indicated they were excavated during illegal digs.

Illegal digging of diamonds by both the Kono and migrants from elsewhere in Africa became the norm and remains so today.

The illegal digging and export of diamonds, especially through neighboring Liberia, financed rebel groups, including Mr. Sankoh's, during a nine-year civil war.