Sentence examples for illegal digging from inspiring English sources

Illegal digging for saleable artifacts have devastated over 100,000 burials in each of Apulia and Peru.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 digs have long been a problem for Egypt, where 5,000 years of history lie buried: but since the start of the uprising against Mr. Mubarak in early 2011, the number has ballooned.

The culture minister, Mr. Raheen, is torn between concern for the safety of the collection and the need to generate world interest for Afghanistan's cultural heritage, much of which is still being looted in illegal digs all over the country.