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We often hear of ancient burial sites getting plundered by graverobbers, but what do we know about the graverobbers themselves? Were these simply opportunistic bandits or something more systematic/organized? What was their MO and were they all that materially different from 20th century excavators?

by /u/PaladinFeng in /r/AskHistorians

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