Sentence examples for illicit excavation from inspiring English sources

With the help of the carabinieri, Rizzo had traced all the fragments to an illicit excavation in Cerveteri.

He acknowledged that most of the objects had no documented ownership history, but also said that there was no evidence of an illicit excavation.

Furthermore, archaeologists rely on meticulous recovery and examination of all available evidence the microscopic and everyday as much as the beautiful and valuable yet fragile material or material thought to be of no value is routinely destroyed during illicit excavation.

The push to curb the illicit excavation and sale of the country's treasures is potentially very important for Egypt, where tourism has traditionally been one of the top foreign currency earners, accounting for more than one-tenth of the country's gross domestic product before the revolution.

It is possible that Ibrahim intentionally left this southern part for later illicit excavations.

They had been moderately valued, at about £40,000, but he is concerned about the impact of illicit excavations.

By exploring two ancient sites which have yielded large bodies of textual and material culture through illicit excavations, I will describe the latent archival organization found in the hoards of cuneiform tablets.

The material in Hecht's journals is only the latest evidence suggesting that the Euphronios krater was the product of illicit excavations.

The 337 objects repatriated back to Italy have been proved to be from illicit Italian excavations.

Illicit, not elicit, of course.

After illicit oil sales, the excavation and sale of ancient Syrian and Iraqi artifacts is the largest funding stream for the Islamic State, testified Matthew Levitt, the director of the program on counterterrorism and intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, last November.