Archaeologist in the early 1900’s would take the mosaics and carvings off of the walls of ancient buildings and send them back to their home countries. Archaeologist were often poorly funded so they would hire local villagers as cheap labor to help them excavate sites. The only problem with hiring uneducated villagers is that they would often break or miss artifacts. Without the help of GPS or modern surveying technology archaeologist would ask locals where to find ancient ruins. Villagers would often send archeologist to sites that they had already looted and they would sell their finds to archaeologist (Brown,
Archaeologist in the early 1900’s would take the mosaics and carvings off of the walls of ancient buildings and send them back to their home countries. Archaeologist were often poorly funded so they would hire local villagers as cheap labor to help them excavate sites. The only problem with hiring uneducated villagers is that they would often break or miss artifacts. Without the help of GPS or modern surveying technology archaeologist would ask locals where to find ancient ruins. Villagers would often send archeologist to sites that they had already looted and they would sell their finds to archaeologist (Brown,