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# Plunderers of Etruscan Tombs Wanted by Police
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/raskhititeli-etrusskikh-grobnits-obiavleny-v-rozysk/
- Published: 2024-11-21T14:02:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:32:03.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Cinema, Observations, Heritage

The Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, has announced that the Italian authorities have put a stop to illegal excavations of an Etruscan burial site in Umbria, and that the police are now searching for two Etruscan treasure hunters. The wanted men are suspected of stealing funerary sarcophagi and an urn with a combined value of 8 million euros, although even the attempt to put a market price on someone's burial looks unethical.

Two sarcophagi were found at the site of the illegal dig, one of them with a skeleton inside. The plundered tombs are presumed to have held Etruscan princesses. Among the missing items is an urn containing ashes, painted with hunting scenes, and smaller finds.

It turns out that *La Chimera* by Alice Rohrwacher, so successful last year, which is about the plunderers of Etruscan tombs, is to some extent based on the story of this very gang. In the film, a criminal band that includes an archaeologist robs Etruscan tombs and sells the artefacts found in them on the black market. In reality, the police have yet to identify all the members of the gang. I hope they will be punished to the full extent of the law.

Strange people, all the same: they are not afraid to break the law, they are not afraid of God, and they are not even afraid of ghosts and curses. What goes on in their heads?

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