Grave Robbing in Ancient Rome and Beyond

Tomb plundering not only occurs in modern times, but already in ancient Greece and Rome tombs fell victim to subsequent unwanted intrusions. This is evidenced not only by literary sources, epigraphic and legal documents, but also by excavations in Greek or Roman burial contexts. How such taphonomic processes are to be interpreted from a revised methodological perspective, what such post-burial disturbances entailed within very different socio-historical contexts in the ancient or even the p...