“Funerary rituals are not for the benefit of the dead, they are really for the benefit of the living… The dead are dead they do not care… So when the living the rituals were meant to benefit are also long dead, then what is the harm in some looting?”
(The serious answer is that the looting of potential archeological sites destroys a lot of knowledge as archeologists do not just look at the items excavated, they also look at where the items were in the context of the site. Meaning that looting the site destroys much of the knowledge that would have otherwise been gained. I am not only talking about modern archeologists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonidus)
“Funerary rituals are not for the benefit of the dead, they are really for the benefit of the living… The dead are dead they do not care… So when the living the rituals were meant to benefit are also long dead, then what is the harm in some looting?”
(The serious answer is that the looting of potential archeological sites destroys a lot of knowledge as archeologists do not just look at the items excavated, they also look at where the items were in the context of the site. Meaning that looting the site destroys much of the knowledge that would have otherwise been gained. I am not only talking about modern archeologists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonidus)