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Nowdays it has become so easy to buy & sell Greek antiquities so that everyone can participate in such a game where all the treasures of greece are selling off . There are established shops at internet where everyone can sell all our ancient  tradition. take a look at http://stores.ebay.com/ZEUS-ANTIQUITIES . There is an ongoing buy & sell of Greek antiquities on ebay. Make a seacrh there like this one and you will get what i am talking about

  George Gligoris, head of the Greek police force's special department against antiquity smuggling, said: "It's a complete free-for-all, the situation is very hard to control.

"And in some parts of the country, the spread of illegal digs is simply explosive."
 
Gligoris heads a team of 19 officers who cover all of Greece, a country with untapped archaeological wealth still hidden in its soil and sea depths.

In major cities such as Athens and Salonika, construction routinely runs into ancient graves, temples and homes.

Monitoring is tougher in the Greek countryside, where farmers often stumble upon archaeological finds while working their fields.