As I was reading about the Valley of the Kings again, I wonder why that was actually legal.

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    Technically taking human remains isn’t grave robbing, it’s body snatching. Grave robbing is taking artifacts like jewellery.

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      So when Lord Carnarvon sent Howard Carter into the Valley of the Kings with his team…

      …that was the Invasion of the Body Snatchers?