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Six busted for plundering artifacts from Dead Sea cave

Palestinian antiquities thieves caught digging for scroll fragments in Judean Desert’s Cave of Skulls could get 5 years

 December 7, 2014, 5:07 pm 1
An official at the Cave of Skulls in an undated photo provided by the IAA. (photo credit: courtesy IAA)
An official at the Cave of Skulls in an undated photo provided by the IAA. (photo credit: courtesy IAA)
Six Palestinians were arrested on suspicion of stealing ancient artifacts from a cave near the Dead Sea, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Sunday.
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Zuluur said…
Unfortunately, all that is old and important becomes valuable also for the wrong reasons.
As with Iraq's National Museum plundering, where priceless Sumerian artifacts "vanished", the lore of the ancients is lost to greed.