Aragon looked at him steadily. “We can learn everything we need to know without looting the city.” “Since when is a disciplined archaeological excavation called looting?” Sloane asked mildly. “Today’s archaeology is tomorrow’s plundering,” Aragon replied. “Look what Schliemann did to the site of Troy a hundred years ago, in the name of science. He practically bulldozed the place, destroyed it for future generations. And that, for its day, was a disciplined excavation.”
The difference is back then they WERE looting (Troy)! Back then, instead of be placed in a sponsor museum, objects found were SOLD to whereverthey finder wished for his personal monetary gains! this is highlighted by the destruction, which kept rare finds rare!
