Pass this along to those that think that treasure hunters are nothing but self serving, modern day pirates who are concerned with nothing but personal gain and motivated by greed:
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061130/481/2e7b88676b6840a9af9343c3bf06e8f0
In fact, probably 95% of things in museums were found by treasure hunters. If it weren't for treasure hunters, detectorists, and archeologists, we wouldn't even know about mummys, civil war sites, WWI and II sites, and others.
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061130/481/2e7b88676b6840a9af9343c3bf06e8f0
In fact, probably 95% of things in museums were found by treasure hunters. If it weren't for treasure hunters, detectorists, and archeologists, we wouldn't even know about mummys, civil war sites, WWI and II sites, and others.