Word: comacchiesi
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Archaeologists speculated that the necropolis must have belonged to the Etruscan city of Spina, which is mentioned in classical literature. But they did not find Spina. They did not find all of the treasures, either. Many of the valuable objects were poached by night-digging Comacchiesi, who sold their illegal loot on the archaeological black market...
Premature Napoleon. At last the Valle Trebba was worked out. The official archaeologists moved to other diggings, and the Comacchiesi were reduced to salting the tombs with non-ancient artifacts (including a bust of Napoleon) which they dug up with feigned delight and sold to gullible collectors. When even this poor commerce died, the Comacchiesi returned to catching eels...
...year there was muted joy in Comacchio and fury among authorized archaeologists; genuine Etruscan antiquities began to appear again on the black market. Stealthy detective work told the authorities where the treasures were coming from. Another lagoon, the Valle Pega, was being drained, and as the waters shallowed, the Comacchiesi stole out at night in their eel boats and probed the mud with steel-tipped poles. When they touched something hard, they dug in the mud and drew out an Attic vase or an Etruscan bronze. The archaeologists called the cops, and the Comacchiesi were routed, but not before they...
Amber & Gold. When the water of the Valle Pega had been drained away, the official archaeologists attacked the newfound diggings. It was a sloppy job, but by using pumps and sheet-metal cofferdams, they reached the deep tombs that the Comacchiesi had missed. Guided by Professor Paolo Enrico Arias of the Uni versity of Catania (who wears a beret and looks, except for his red rubber boots, like a movie director of the Keystone Cop period), the laborers extracted a stream of beautiful things dating from the time when Rome was young. One tomb contained the skeleton of a young...
...mother lode of the treasure, has not yet been found. Perhaps it lies under the mud not far away. There is a rumor that Professor Arias knows where it is, but is keeping mum. Sophisticates in nearby Ferrara do not believe this. "When Spina is found," they say, "the Comacchiesi will find...
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