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Egyptian authorities are after a gang of criminals who created a fake Egyptian tomb to scam antiquities traffickers! The suspects were almost caught, but made a dramatic escape.
and it s still happening. the damage was so severe to the site and so ongoing that i couldn t live with myself if i didn t try and do something. i just felt that if i didn t come forward, there wasn t going to be anything left. reporter: carol redmount is an archaeologist from the university of california berkeley who s been coming to egypt for more than 30 years. she works 180 miles south of cairo. her site, an ancient town called el hibeh was completely destroyed by looters in the year and a half since the revolution. i was shocked. it was actually almost a physical shock when i finally got onto the site to see for myself. they dug literally hundreds of holes in every single part of the site. we re coming up to the site right now. you can see that area of freshly dug earth. that is a place where the looters are digging right now. there are no guards here, there s no fence around it. it is an opportunity that is