Human history is the greatest story ever told, the only way we can fully understand is if we express it together. Digging past for profit has been a profession for thousands of years. The earliest raiding court in Egypt known to have occurred at Thebes in 1113 BC. A band of looters led by a brave mason robs a grave carved into stone. The mason and his accomplice were found guilty and may be put to death by stabbing.
The invaders also once stole Egyptian ancient objects. From the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, when Egypt was dominated by foreign nations, countless of its past objects were sent to cultural centers abroad through giving, trading, or coercion.
Looting in Egypt increased after the impact of the global economy and the 2011 revolution, when government security forces disappeared. Some unemployed were looted for life. The Egyptian militants were structured like a fourth-rate pyramid. The basic level, perhaps three-quarters of the manpower, consists of poor villagers whose knowledge of local terrain and monuments is important for finding booty. The second level is an intermediary that holds objects from local diggers and organizes workers into groups. Third-level players rush antiques abroad and sell them to foreign buyers at the top of the looting pyramid. Profit gets higher when artifacts climb the pyramid staircase. Some second-level looters sell for 10 times the amount paid to the digger.
More recently, the looting of relics of history also occurred in Syria. Since the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011, looting surged to a destructive level. ISIS organizes and organizes looting, using the loot to help finance its operations. In August 2015, ISIS troops lit cameras, lined the temples of Baaldshamin temples with explosives, and blew up the nearly 2000-year-old building to shatter. This is one of the long list of ISIS systematic systematic destructions performed, documented proudly and displayed in social media for the world to watch. The conflicts in Syria are stained by unspeakable cruelty, public executions, beheadings, kidnappings, slavery and murder or expulsion of civilians, a common cultural heritage in the region is one of the many victims of the conflict.
May 16, 2015, US Special Forces conduct night raid on ISIS fortress, their target: ISIS Division of Natural Resources Division, Abu Sayyaf. The Abu Sayyaf were killed in the ensuing battle, but US troops found vital information about the way ISIS utilized antiques to finance their operations. On the black market, they trade artifacts with rifles to kill and terrorize. ISIS also issued specific individual written permission to dig in its territory, plundering looters for whatever it acquired. The sites were destroyed, full of holes and valuable artifacts looted. ISIS views this treasure, like treasure in Tadmur, as a way of imposing its ideology on the world and directly financing its activities. On the other hand the world sees this treasure as an invaluable history, a common cultural heritage, which is shattered.
Thousands of kilometers from Syria, the invention of carved tombstones in Aceh is rampant. This historical relic can reconstruct Aceh's overall historical framework based on inscriptions inscribed on gravestones. A community organization concerned with the history of Aceh (MAPESA), routinely performs mutual assistance to save precious historical artifacts of Aceh. In addition, the young collector of Aceh manuscripts, Masykur, at his own expense, sought out ancient manuscripts that the community ignored to collect and could be the subject of much research into Aceh's history.
In the end, man has two opposite traits, the nature of the devil and the angel. Those who follow the passions to survive will sell their ancestors to riches. Those who want to find identity will find their ancestors to be told to posterity.