Word: tombaroli
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...racket in Italy involves a couple of thousand fulltime, professional tombaroli or tomb robbers, most of them peasants who know their land intimately. They work in teams. There are, for instance, at least twelve organized groups plundering the Etruscan sites in Cerveteri. Their scorn for official archaeologists is extreme...
...What tombaroli disperse and often destroy is precisely that kind of vital information. In this way the unfettered acquisitiveness of museums in America and elsewhere, with their concentration on "masterpieces," results in a form of destruction of the past. Connoisseurship and history have become enemies...
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