More than 400 treasure hunters have descended on an East Yorkshire village for a weekend metal detecting festival.
But archaeologists do know the consequences of rogue treasure hunters armed with metal detectors descending on a valuable site.
The RNLI is warning treasure hunters to take care after a rare piece of whale vomit was found on Morecambe beach.
It is important to prevent treasure hunters from rifling through the rubble of the numerous cultural landmarks that collapsed in the earthquake.
The site - believed to be a Romano-Celtic temple - was left a patchwork of holes by treasure hunters who stole up to 10, 000 coins.
Who would protect it from poachers, gawkers and treasure hunters?
Sadly, someone else had a similar idea with a book, and that resulted in some lawsuits when would-be treasure hunters started digging up land that wasn't theirs to dig, in search of the bounty.
Based on the more than 9, 000 emails Fenn says he has received just in the past few months, he estimates thousands of treasure hunters will descend on northern New Mexico this spring.
The fact that Mr Becker is but one of a handful of underwater treasure hunters now scanning the ocean floor for traces of the wreck, would have saddened her greatly, they say.
Treasure hunters discovered the archaeological site in the early 1970s when they climbed the 1, 263 stone steps from the riverbank to find an isolated site consisting of more than 150 terraces, plazas and stone paths that cascade down the mountain.
To keep treasure-hunters away, the find remained a secret for two years while archaeologists scoured the area of the melt-back and analysed the finds.
Our underwater cultural heritage is under the increasing threat of looters, treasure and souvenir hunters, the lack of legal protection, and natural disasters.
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