No major looting or accidents have been reported.
The archeologists excavated every major looting pit, measuring and mapping with satellite imagery.
There has been major looting in every important postconflict situation of the past decade.
(Of course, Iraqis will tell you that the major looting occurred in 1914, when the Germans who had been excavating the site hauled away the famous Ishtar Gate and other booty to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin).
"Shelling, shooting, heavy machinery installed in sites, and major looting are the leading causes of damage and destruction to the sites, although I would not discount that vandalism is also playing a part.
Iraq has suddenly found itself in early 2006 again, in a week that has seen Sunni insurgents once more face off with Shia militias, a major city looted as an army stands by, and the two shrines whose destruction sparked the sectarian war again endangered.
This book, published in tandem with a collection of her non-fiction, contains key stories from some of her major collections, including Loot, Jump, and Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. One-Sixteenth Black
The ancient cities of Nineveh, Nimrud, and Hatra lost major sculpture to looting.
"Kidnappings and extortion may be their main source of funding, but it is naive to think insurgents are not getting a major share of the loot".
News of the siege ground the country to a halt and led to looting in major cities as criminals exploited the absence of police.
Los Angeles Riots of 1992, major outbreak of violence, looting, and arson in Los Angeles that began on April 29 , 1992 in response to the acquittal of four white Los Angeles policemen on all but one charge (on which the jury was deadlocked) connected with the severe beating of an African American motorist in March 1991.
