tomb robbers
Ancient burial plunderers
Tomb robbers are people who break into burial sites to steal valuables interred with the dead.
The practice is ancient—Egyptian pyramids were plundered within generations of their construction.
Modern tomb robbers feed the black market for antiquities: Tomb robbers had stripped the site before archaeologists arrived.
The term carries moral weight that "grave robber" shares, though grave robbing historically also meant stealing corpses themselves.
- graveSerious and worrying
- burial siteInterment location
- thievesThose who commit larceny
- plunderGoods seized violently
- dead of nightDarkest part of evening
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- Egyptian tombssarcophagus, mummy, burial chamber, mummies, canopic jar
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
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