DIGGING FOR PROFIT
Archaeologists, who have been unearthing Roman treasures for their own profit have been finding trouble in Italy. Eight people have been arrested by the Rome police following the discovery of secret excavations in the province of Orvieto. For six months they had dug silently at night by the light of flashlamps in the soil of ancient Roman summer colonies in the neighbourhood df Orvieto, 50 miles from Rome. They had excavated many bronze and marble works of art, worth more than £IO,OOO. All these objects, found in a disused warehouse, belonging to one of the arrested men, were transferred to a Rome museum.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 14
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106DIGGING FOR PROFIT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 14
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