[WouldaShoulda]

What a rip off.

So the lesson learned here is what ? If you find a valuable treasure full of interesting artifacts, history, etc, you should tell ... nobody ... or they'll steal it from you .. instead you should just quietly recover it, melt it down, and sell the bricks to the highest bidder, is that the message here ?

Yep.

No point in preserving antiquities and history.

Just plunder, baby, plunder!!