I'm on the lookout for a stone chest full of gold coins. Blood money paid to Cortez to stop the slaughter. Anyone got any leads?

Weaver95: I'm on the lookout for a stone chest full of gold coins. Blood money paid to Cortez to stop the slaughter. Anyone got any leads?

No all I found was this Crystal skull.
/And a fridge

So I can go ahead and drink from this shiny gold wine glass then?

Weaver95: I'm on the lookout for a stone chest full of gold coins. Blood money paid to Cortez to stop the slaughter. Anyone got any leads?

Are you on a roll to mention Cortez as much as possible today?

/Dusts off Arc of Covenant I found in my closet.

Thank god "artifact looter" is my second career choice ...

This belongs in a museum!

cgraves67: So I can go ahead and drink from this shiny gold wine glass then?

Damn, you got a gold wine glass? All I got was this fugly clay cup.

I was once accused of simony but they let me off.

But if you're gonna be snatching artifacts you still may be chased after by military henchmen commanded by you know who.

Sid Deuces: But if you're gonna be snatching artifacts you still may be chased after by military henchmen commanded by you know who.

Sarah Palin? :)

ScottMpls: Thank god "artifact looter" is my second career choice ...

Right behind hot air balloon vigilante?

/It's what I want to be when I grow up
//Whenever I get around to that.

Well, I find that if I just sit down, the solution presents itself!

Still unable to find the City of Gold...

/Obligatory??

Braindeath: Are you on a roll to mention Cortez as much as possible today?

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I can't help it. Every time someone starts talking about south america, I start thinking of Cortez.

The internets have really created a huge new market for antiquities. Hard to support, but I also don't believe professional archaeologists are helping matters any with their "zero acceptance" policy (if anyone dropped it anywhere on Earth ever, it belongs to us and you can't sell it).

Archaeologists working with this new industry to hammer out some acceptable compromises would go a hell of a long way towards limiting the damage.




Also, pretty.

I can remember my father marching as part of the Marine Corps color guard in this parade, 1967-1970. After his first parade, the Marines refused to march unless they led the parade, because they couldn't break step to avoid all the horse crap on the parade route.

Dammit, wrong thread!

Huh...

In Egypt they have the army guard archeological sites. No jail time involved, if you're there after sundown you receive a very swift sentence indeed.

Does there need to be a law..I thought that artefact looters got subject to some deadly curse or plague or something, or was that just in Egypt?

Dont worry tho looters, buy ur special ancient artefact protection against curses amulet from my ebay shop now...just $5.99 +p&p

What about the poison darts or punji spikes in the wall? How common?

/Inquiring minds want to know

This place is cursed.

krug9999: cgraves67: So I can go ahead and drink from this shiny gold wine glass then?

Damn, you got a gold wine glass? All I got was this fugly clay cup.

Mine is made of wood, probably belonged to a Carpenter.

genner: krug9999: cgraves67: So I can go ahead and drink from this shiny gold wine glass then?

Damn, you got a gold wine glass? All I got was this fugly clay cup.

Mine is made of wood, probably belonged to a Carpenter.

Which might explain the splinters ...

Ahhh, an excuse to post something I made for a Fark photoshop thread, but somebody beat me to the concept.

Here's a much better article on the Blanding loot fest, which I submitted to Fark on Oct. 4.


http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/10/04/news/20091004_front_204943.txt

Bith Set Me Up: Well, I find that if I just sit down, the solution presents itself!

So you have piles of gold eh?

The last major artifact looter I knew bought movie stars, kings and an ice messiah but failed to bring home a sacred cup.




I think he earned the wrath of coin collectors, Canadians and film geeks with Weekend At Bernies.

/nice guy though, met him with John Candy and Richard Dean Anderson rinkside at the Forum.

http://azdailysun.com/articles/2009/10/04/news/20091004_front_204942.txt


I also submitted this to Fark recently on the looting going on in the Southwest U.S.

http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/10/04/news/20091004_front_204943.txt


And here was my Fark headline they did not greenlght on the subject:

"Used menstrual material brings big bucks to Utah man"

Marshall Banana: The internets have really created a huge new market for antiquities. Hard to support, but I also don't believe professional archaeologists are helping matters any with their "zero acceptance" policy (if anyone dropped it anywhere on Earth ever, it belongs to us and you can't sell it).

Archaeologists working with this new industry to hammer out some acceptable compromises would go a hell of a long way towards limiting the damage.

We're trying. In underwater archaeology, you HAVE to rely on recreational divers, because they're the ones that find wrecks. In Europe, most recreational divers are members of clubs that have standards and encourage diver education. I don't mind someone profiting off of relics found on their land, but please at least contact the archaeological community and give them an opportunity to study the site and the artifacts in context before you take a backhoe and tear up your front lawn to pawn artifacts on Ebay.

The reason some people in my profession are deathly afraid of relic hunters is the reckless mindset of people like Mel Fisher and Odyssey. Mel Fisher destroyed a priceless vessel looking for gold that wasn't likely to be there in the first place. Olympus Dive Center proudly displays relics they swiped off a U-boat of the North Carolina coast, pillage from a war grave.

I know professors, professional archaeologists, and CRM firms that have a wide variety of opinions on the subject. But it's not unlike the thread about the Historic Site in Maryland from earlier today. We spend $680k not because we expect X number of visitors, but because that history the site interprets is important. A random shipwreck or Tuscarora campsite teaches us more about history than anything else, and if you can only see dollar amounts when it comes to history I feel bad for you.

"Top men."

So it's okay to call them Indians again? I've seen this in a lot of reputable news sources lately.

Although you can't tell from the linked article, yes they are referring to Native Americans and not people from India. (Reference: gov't link (pops)

Marshall Banana: The internets have really created a huge new market for antiquities. Hard to support, but I also don't believe professional archaeologists are helping matters any with their "zero acceptance" policy (if anyone dropped it anywhere on Earth ever, it belongs to us and you can't sell it).

Archaeologists working with this new industry to hammer out some acceptable compromises would go a hell of a long way towards limiting the damage.

Also, pretty.

The original intent was to stop what we're seeing today, private collectors buying up artifacts for their private collections, keeping them in their homes and ruining the site for interpretation. Contrary to popular belief and fiction, archaeologists don't ONLY want to see stuff in museums, they're primarily interested in learning about our ancestors, how civilization developed and so forth. People buying up gold masks from Sipan, jade from Bejing, and monoliths from Dublin, selling them to Japanese collectors on eBay, and destroying the sites in the process destroy that history, and money alone can't bring it back.

MONSTERTRUCK: http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/10/04/news/20091004_front_204943.txt


And here was my Fark headline they did not greenlght on the subject:

"Used menstrual material brings big bucks to Utah man"

And?

So it's okay to call them Indians again? I've seen this in a lot of reputable news sources lately.

Ever heard of the BIA? Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Incredible Sexual Egg

WELCOME TO FARK!

Alt-tard

I know an Import/Export Broker in a TX border town who has a warehouse to rival the NY Museum of Natural History. Unbelievable collection.

This sort of resource rape has been established as the dominion of the landed class, of course it's not a serious crime. Now, a black guy stealing some pizza...

If only.

/Hotter than the Cross of Coronado

MONSTERTRUCK: The Incredible Sexual Egg

WELCOME TO FARK!

Haha, thanks

eraser8: This belongs in a museum!

Leaving satisfied.

/some looted artifacts wait until morning before exploding your head